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CarazaaF
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馃尣 And yet we love them anyway, because we care about their salvation and we want them to have blessings from God, because we love Jesus and he is our example!
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CarazaaF
@Emosaur Not if they repent their sins and trust in Jesus. If they don't believe in Jesus they will have to pay for their own sins when Jesus comes back, yep!
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CarazaaF
@Emosaur Just because I tell you that you are a sinner doesn't mean I don't care about you.
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sunriseloverM
@Emosaur I see hell
as the absence of Gods love.


But assuming you are right and there is no God. Then I would suggest the nearest image there is of hell and evil is to be found in the Gaza Strip. This is a land of very little love and compassion. It shows mankind鈥檚 inhumanity at its worst.

OK, I鈥檓 a Christian and I pray for peace and compassion. I get very frustrated, like the Psalmist.

But when I asked people to give thanks to God for the hostage exchange I got nothing but abuse. I got a load of nonsense about Biden, and was called a charlatan. I removed the post, seeing this attack on me as a manifestation of evil. I prayed and added the post again, having blocked the abusive Americans.Love and reconciliation will win through.

To sum up, as a Christian I believe evil was dealt with by Christ on the Cross. The manmade hell rested in the Gaza Strip will ultimately lose.
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sunriseloverM
@Emosaur I think we both acknowledge it exists though.
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sunriseloverM
@Emosaur The same questions were asked in the Nazi concentration camps.
The guy who wrote Psalm 87 asks it too.

Let鈥檚 go for man is innately evil.

Other than that, random atoms colliding together after the Big Bang. That does not sound plausible.

But there is love in these places too, and compassion, and we must somehow hang on to that.
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sunriseloverM
@Emosaur The Nazis were Germans. Don鈥檛 hide from that.

Corporate manslaughter opens up a new vista.

Perhaps if you do not accept the Nazi concentration camps as evil, then let鈥檚 try the treatment of the Uighur people in China, or the torturous killing of premature babies in Chester.
sunriseloverM
Jesus died on the Cross to defeat evil. And reconcile us with God. He rose from the dead. This has happened.

The problem of evil remains beyond us.

But it is not a simplistic two dimensional problem, with a two dimensional solution. Nor a mathematical problem.

Keep searching for God my friend. You will find Him.
CarazaaF
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CarazaaF
@Emosaur We should not punish people, except our kids. But God definitely has the right to punish us since he created us! He gives life and he takes it. That is life!
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