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Yeah kinda do. Understand what y r getting at if you are in the belief that God should have made a creation without the possibility of rebellion. Double fist pump with the same thoughts of many but I am left with the distinct thought that it is not possible to have true relationship without choice, even if it may mean they say no.
for a healthy relationship to exist both parties must work together, judging by the growth of many "New age" and alternative religions along with agnostic's and atheists. Obviously gods ability to engage in his relationship with man is failing pretty badly. Your proper relationship is a poor one. Ask yourself this, Would you ever consider putting a loved one through tests such as God has done?
Unless your sociopath the answer is no, the very foundation of a relationship is support and communication. Failing to provide such things causes relationship's to collapse.
Given that on a footy site we have a "God" thread, quite clearly people still seek a relationship with god at least some stage of their life, and seeing as many now question his existence quite clearly the blokes not doing enough reciprocating.
you suggest that calling out the stupidity in conducting an unethical experiment as suggesting an omnipotent being should make things perfect misses the point entirely. God KNOWS the outcome, always has always will. So the idea of a TEST does not stack, Why would you test something if you KNOW the outcome theres no need.
If as you say it is not a test (it brings into question a whole array of Christian theology) and is instead solely about a relationship, then once again God fails. God KNOWS how people think, wether they will believe in a God who's only influence upon man is through a collection of books that at best, suggests God is very likely schizophrenic and does nothing to actively engage these people or sway them.
This does not suggest a disposition for loving these people, it shows quite the contrary that God has no regard for human life at all. It shows God's only concern is himself, glory is for him only. So far as to punish and murder those that don't believe in him, despite full well knowing exactly what it would take to make believers of these people and thus avoid the necessity of firey death lakes. Knowing everything he knows and neglecting literally the entire planet, until a time he chooses shows a lack of empathy for his creation. God quite clearly has not given a **** about 90% of people who have existed or will exist.
Permitting people to starve to death shows a complete lack of any human decency, particularly when many of these people are his devoted servants. Wether things turn out ok after you die is completely irrelevant, you simply do not submit a person you care about to such a thing if you have the power to stop it.
Then there's the whole thing about what God actually wants, God does not want a relationship that is healthy. In fact even after Armageddon with everything's all rosy, we're told people will bow before God as if he were some feudal king.
God's "proper" relationship shows man as a willing submissive. With people bowing to and praising the bloke who's relationship has gone from acting with violent aggressive behaviour towards his creation for not doing exactly what they are told (despite supposedly having a "choice") to ignoring them, to offering a reprieve and back to violence and then finally commanding complete devotion or torture and death.
If you applied the psychological traits that "god" displayed throughout the bible to a person and had to decide if this person was fit to raise children 100% of people would recommend the children be placed in foster care.
As I said God as displayed in the bible cannot be omnipotent and loving.
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