Magus55

Because children don't have the knowledge or understanding to know who God is, what sin is and why they need Jesus as their saviour. Therefore they aren't held responsbile until a particular age ( which is different for each individual and God determines it).


Because God executed judgement on the sinners and had a particular purpose in mind. For example, in the flood, the children lived in a society beyond evil even compared to today. Had God let the children grow up to the point of being held responsible for sin, they would have rejected him and been judged. By killing them with the other sinners, God held onto them and brought them to Heaven with him before they could reject him.

And as the cliche goes, God works in mysterious ways we can't always understand.

He is bound by his own nature. And nothing prevents him from throwing all humans into Hell. In fact he has every right to do so through perfect justice because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Rom 3:23.
Thats where all humans belong. But in his infinite mercy and love, he came to earth and paid the penalty for our sins so we didn't have to face our inevitable fate. He brought us back to glory with him by his own grace and love. Jesus' life was worth more than every human on Earth because he was perfectly innocent and sinless. He didn't even have original sin. He was Holy and pure, yet he died to carry the sin on the cross with him to pay your debt. If God was the sadistic monster you describe, we would all be in Hell right now and Jesus would have never died for us, because he absolutely had no need to do so other than he loves us and didn't want us to face our fate despite how we treat him.



Executing judgement on people isn't murder. The U.S executes people all the time for their crimes, and God does so too yet he can't make a mistake and execute an innocent person because no one is innocent.

Magus55

He does to us. He created us, He died to save us from Hell. Therefore, he deserves to be worshipped. You don't want to worship him, thats your choice. God doesn't force you to accept his gift, but he also warned of the penalty for it.

lpetrich

Magus55 reminds me of St. Augustine, who was obsessed with his sinfulness.

He had devoted some chapters of his Confessions to describing what a terrible sin he had committed in his childhood -- he and some other boys stealing some pears.

And he claimed that babies are terrible sinners, guilty of gluttony and jealousy and the like.

winstonjen

Why couldn't he do the same for the sinners who were already above the age of accountability? Why didn't he kill them off before they were condemned to hell by him? After all, he knows what everyone will do, before they do those things.

And yet you claim to know all about him.

Still sounds like afterlife blackmail and threats to me. Besides, why would I want to live for all eternity next to probably the worst, most hypocritical, evil being depicted? Sounds worse than hell to me.

winstonjen

Don't forget that he created hell, to begin with. And according to your bible, he loves burnt sacrifices. Therefore, he would probably ENJOY torturing people in hell. I guess that's why he creates so many people just for damnation and deceives them - he enjoys it.

Magus55

I'm not obsessed with sin, but i know I am a sinner and only by Lord Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross am i able to be reconciled. I repent my sins to God all the time because I feel bad for doing them. I hate sinning against God.

winstonjen

Wouldn't it be easier to simply stop sinning rather than to keep repenting all the time? Or can't you stop because you enjoy it?

lpetrich

Then your god is setting a pathetic example, and doesn't deserve to be worshipped

What a tangled mess.

I have two "creators", two human parents. But I don't grovel before them and tell them how much I hate myself.

Magus55

No, we can't stop sinning because we are in a corrupt world and corrupt bodies. Until Jesus ressurects us and gives us new bodies, we will always fail and sin. However, the difference is, we strive not to sin and repent when we do.

Magus55

Your parents aren't your creators, they are the vessel that brought you into the world. God created the human body, he created reproduction and the process of life, and he allows conception. All humans do is start the process and are entrusted by God to raise the child.