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StrictLoving · 56-60, M
@Kindheartedguy: that proves the devil exists
bijouxbroussard · F
@Kindheartedguy: Agreed. How could an omnipotent, omnipresent being possibly allow that to happen ?
StrictLoving · 56-60, M
@Kindhearted guy: God gave you free moral agency. He does not control you or anyone else. To suggest that bad things in the world are proof that God does not exist is to demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge of the true nature of God.
The question is, why would a person take their God given free moral agency and do something heinous such as abuse a child?
The answer is that there is a dark force in the world. An entity which hates God and which will do anything it can to keep a person from finding God. That spirit has many names, but is easily discernible.
To the devil, it doesn't matter if you get hooked on drugs, sex, porn, video games or serial murder. As long as it's not God's agenda for your life - so long as he can keep you ignorant and distant from God, then he wins.
God gave you free moral agency and a choice: life and blessing, or death and cursing. It is God's will that you choose life. The choice is yours.
Would you prefer to live in a world where God takes away your freedoms of choice?
The question is, why would a person take their God given free moral agency and do something heinous such as abuse a child?
The answer is that there is a dark force in the world. An entity which hates God and which will do anything it can to keep a person from finding God. That spirit has many names, but is easily discernible.
To the devil, it doesn't matter if you get hooked on drugs, sex, porn, video games or serial murder. As long as it's not God's agenda for your life - so long as he can keep you ignorant and distant from God, then he wins.
God gave you free moral agency and a choice: life and blessing, or death and cursing. It is God's will that you choose life. The choice is yours.
New International Version
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.
Deuteronomy 30:19
This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.
Deuteronomy 30:19
Would you prefer to live in a world where God takes away your freedoms of choice?