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[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"What's sin, dad?"

"It's the innate desire to break my rules."

"Where did that come from?"

"I gave you the right to choose, but with flawed biological processes, ensuring you would piss me off so I have an excuse to beat you. I could have done literally anything, but I chose this."

It is not love.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"What's sin"

"It is an act of death (mortal sins), you seperate yourself from God when you commit them and you also ruin your life when you commit them"

"Where did that come from?"

"Satan convinced Adam and Eve to eat the apple. God gave us free will but so that we could follow him willingly in faith. It is us that corrupt what he has made for good"

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God gave us free will but so that we could follow him willingly in faith

If he wanted us to follow him...

...he could have just made us follow him. We'd be better off without the free will, we wouldn't need emotions or thoughts at all. No suffering.

But even if you want to pretend free will exists (still waiting for any evidence that it does), god, being ALL-POWERFUL, had literally infinite ways he could have made us and our world such that we would all believe in him without compromising our free will.

God is stupid. Shockingly unimaginative.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He didn't want to create brainless automatons. Love has to be consensual to be love.

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

It's not consensual under threat. That's an ultimatum, not love. That's using guilt and fear to manipulate us, not love.

And, AGAIN: ALL-POWERFUL. No limits to his power, right? Therefore, no excuse for suffering. He wants us to suffer because he's vain and cruel.

Or, more likely, he does not exist.