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“If you died today, do you know where you’d spend the rest of eternity?”
No,
I don’t, and neither do you. So stop asking such a presumptuous
question as this that implies you have some insider knowledge that the
rest of us don’t. And seriously, if your faith is entirely founded upon
the notion of eternal fire insurance, you’re not sharing testimony;
you’re peddling propaganda.
Well there another 19 on top of the ten referred to - here is a good one
God is in control.
This raises a very fundamental
problem of Theodicy, which most Christians I’ve met who say this are not
necessarily prepared to address. Theodicy is the dilemma between belief
in an all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful God with the existence
of evil and/or suffering in the world. And the other problem is that, if
you believe that human beings have free will (a central tenet of most
Christian thought), it needs to be recognized that that, in itself, is a
concession of control by God. And like other phrases I’ve mentioned
about God’s role in daily life, be careful in tossing this one around.
Telling someone who was raped, abused, tortured, neglected, etc. that
God was in control during that experience likely is enough to incent
that person to turn from the concept of God forever.
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