For all the Believer turned Agnostics and Athiests

ModelessDiva wrote: Gkisses wrote: You state ur questions as if the events are fact. For me personal its hard for me to even begin answering it because I see neither as being real. I do however find it interesting that many believers state that God is all powerful and all knowing but then also say  hes not more powerful than a persons free will. When bad things happen the devil did it but god is more powerful.  When ppl do bad things its that persons free will or them allowing satan to whisper in their ear yet god is more powerful. When things fail it is never at the foot of Gods doing however its all his plan. He asked me why is Satan more powerful than God. How else can I answer without using biblical references??

Satan being more powerful than God is based on the fact that the majority of the world, as judged by Christians, aren't followers of "the one and only God."

Christians say all of those people that aren't Christian are going to Hell. So therefore, all of them are workers of iniquity, also known as followers of Satan.

Why does Satan have more pull and influence than God? How is Satan able to tempt the entire world, at the exact same time? He seems just as omnipresent and omnipotent as God. In fact, he's even strong enough to throw God's most respected leaders off their bandwagon, with simple temptations.

To bring this back around to my original point (or your original analogy about cars). I think people question Christianity because Christians themselves are failing at their own 'walk with God'. It's like 'why would I put my faith in this when so many other people are failing.' I was comparing that with people that might question a car if so many of the drivers are crashing and dying, even though this car is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread.

I'll stop with the analogies now though. Me having to explain it proves it wasn't a very good analogy on my part.


Edited by Random Thoughts - Mar 02 2013 at 3:19pm

Bunnyahh wrote: bg wrote: i will never forget the day i stopped attending church...i actually got up and walked out of the service it was around the time that heath ledger died the pastor said the reason he died is because he played a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain...i was done mentally i had already checked out but that was the moment where i was like what the hell?? Organized religion is such a turn off to me...  but how can u love anybody if u don't love god?

 

righteous judgement?

mighty strong words, for a blasė omnipresence

lol

My mother instilled faith in me from birth. Kept me involved in Church, and prayed over me every night.

This sounds like religious indoctrination to me.  When you were a baby, you had no understanding who god was.  Had you been born in India, your mother would have instilled a belief in the Hindu religion.  If you were born in Malaysia, she would have kept you involved in the mosque.  If you were born in Japan, she would have whispered nothing more than how much she loved you every night.  Spirituality doesn't seem to be all that "spiritual".  It seems more cultural than anything else.