When you stand before God, what might a question be that you’ll ask Him?

I wouldn’t presume to question God.

Is he both able and willing?

Yes.

Then whence cometh evil?

First, from Lucifer exercising his free will to reject God and put himself in God’s place, then from man exercising his free will to follow Lucifer’s example.

That play would be marvelous to produce,
if not on Broadway then at ground zero.

She had them removed with her first face lift,
grew out her bangs and tossed away the headband.

Ultimately we chose to love or hate, lie, steal, or tell the truth. That is how we are judged. The Bible (and particularly the Ten Commandments) gives a clear standard of right or wrong. Jesus takes this standard up a notch or two. No wonder liberals are so adamant about removing the Ten Commandments and Jesus from schools, court rooms, and public life.

MB4 on April 29, 2008 at 11:26 PM

Voltaire was not an atheist. He was a Deist.

He lampooned Sir Isaac Newton for predicting, on the basis of his Bible studies, that mankind would one day travel at speeds reaching 50 miles per hour.

Here is Voltaire’s dedication to Pope Benedict XIV of his play Mahomet: “To the head of the true religion, a writing against the founder of a false and barbarous religion.”

Why didn’t he just wave his hand and make it all better. He is omnipotent. Isn’t he? Why/how would a perfect God create so imperfect a product?

Oldnuke on April 30, 2008 at 8:39 AM

To give us a chance to chose.

Basically, just ask about the logical absurdity that is the concept of Hell.

muyoso on April 29, 2008 at 11:10 PM

I’m not sure where you got it that Satan was doing the punishing. He will be punished there as well.

MB4 on April 29, 2008 at 11:18 PM

I don’t understand why this is such a difficult concept. In this country, people who scream fascism if we imposed laws on things like adultery even though it might protect someone from being hurt. And yet people routinely question God’s decision to allow humanity the freedom to chose between good and evil.

Without that ability, we’re merely the animals at the top of the food chain.

Is he both able and willing?

Yes, however, like the National Guard after Katrina hit, God needs to be asked and won’t impose on those who want nothing to do with Him.

I hate the posts that bring out the wannabe theologians

Not me. It’s a great chance to discuss different views and witness for Christ.

Oldnuke on April 30, 2008 at 8:39 AM

God’s omnipotence cannot trump His justice. What would you think of a judge who, when faced with sentencing a child rapist, said to the convicted man, “I am wiping your slate clean as though you never did it.” You wouldn’t think him a very just judge, would you? If he’s a good judge, he would punish evil. God’s justice must be met as well, as all human beings have fallen short and disobeyed God’s laws. Therefore, we all must suffer judgment. The price must be paid.

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

I have no idea why he saddled us with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama though.

Could it be He’s sending us a message, like He did Nineveh?

She’s clueless:
“We know that you had your son suffer excruciatingly and he died for us and I can’t thank you enough for that gift but so many people who seem so innocent have also suffered so much. Was there any point at which you thought yo…

fossten on April 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM

Why didn’t he just wave his hand and make it all better. He is omnipotent. Isn’t he? Why/how would a perfect God create so imperfect a product?

I’ve often thought that if god is benevolent he/she wonders “my experiment must have gone sour”

Entelechy on April 30, 2008 at 12:38 AM

Genesis Chapter 6

6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

If God is the creator of everything – the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, how can man create evil from his own free will? It was there, Man may have chosen it but it was still created by God.

Blight on April 29, 2008 at 11:29 PM

Wrong.

What is darkness? Darkness is the absence of light.

What is cold? Cold is the absence of heat.

What is nothing? Nothing is the absence of something.

What is evil? Evil is simply the absence of good.

“God, how hard do you laugh when you see people getting worked up over politics?”
MadisonConservative on April 29, 2008 at 11:20 PM

And religion.

If I were a prophet, I would be eating locusts and wild honey and crying out from the wilderness at Hillary about the millions and millions of innocents that have suffered and excruciatingly from abortion. The children that lost their lives and were never named or remembered. The parents that realize later what they have done, and the women that have had to deal with mental and physical anguish from their “choice”. Hillary was part of a regime that jailed protesters against abortion and helped promote its unlimited use as birth control. She has never mentioned regret or sorrow for what she has done, and in the process has lessened God’s presence in the universe. She will have to stand before God and answer for that.

“Thanks for life, the capacity for love, beauty, free will and all that crap, but it ain’t exactly Heaven now is it? Just sayin’ Lord, I would have done a better job of it. Automatic health insurance at birth for every human being for one thing. Federally funded abortion on demand for another.”

What a useless twit she is. As if anyone with a meaningful understanding of their faith is gonna buy this posturing.

The Apologist on April 29, 2008 at 11:13 PM

Hahahaha Good translation.

Especially since God’s made clear that He DOES expect us to lessen one another’s suffering (Matthew 25:31-46, James 2:14-17 etc etc etc etc etc). Yeah she knows her Bible all right. *rolls eyes*

Wow…so many of you are too desperate to criticize Hillary. I oppose her candidacy as much as anyone, but I find nothing wrong with what she said here.
Again, I wish she had been asked about abortion or homosexuality in light of the Bible.

jgapinoy on April 30, 2008 at 12:14 AM

You’re right, asking God why He allows evil is a good question. Just not the arrogant, even condescending way she asked it (”was there any point at which you thought…”—pshah!)

As if WE have any idea how much suffering God has already spared any of us.

Kini on April 30, 2008 at 4:15 AM

OUCH!!

True, but WHO gets to be the standard?

leftnomore on April 30, 2008 at 4:03 AM

Lorena Leonor Bobbitt

I would have thought that Hillary would have asked God what the three 6’s on her scalp meant.

Just wonderin’…

profitsbeard on April 29, 2008

Oh my gosh, what other comments need we to leave? This one said it all.