The Ineffability of God's Will

Bowser said:
Isn't it like a commitment that Christians should love everybody? In other words, regardless of what someone might believe, you still value that person? I'm just going off what I have heard. It might be only practiced by some. :shrug:
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yes, it is the command to love everyone..it doesn't say we have to like everyone!
If you find someone you don't like, figure out what it is you don't like about them, %90 of the time it is something you don't like about yourself.(see projecting)

I can Value you and still not like you..
(generic 'you')
 
Bowser said:
I can see where that might be the case for some, but 90% of the time? Come on now, you made that up. :bugeye:
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no, i usually tell it as %99(somewhere here on Sciforums)..i heard it as 90, someone old and famous (roy rogers perhaps?:shrug:too long ago)
 
Interesting comments, gentlemen, but I'm still dubious about the value of the thread.

In what way does it help much of anything to lean on a bigoted assertion - OP and later - about the moral or rational culpability of religious people in such a crime? I mean, this is ultimately the point. So: why? To what end? This is never explained.
 
The OP interestingly adopts a stance that seems to take Mr. "Hermogenes" (what a name!) at his word.

It's perfectly conceivable that this particular religious person, Mr. "Hermogenes", is wrong about his theology.

Sort of mangled with this problem in the OP's first post is a rehash of the perennial problem of theodicy. I don't mind revisiting that problem, but it's a little annoying to see it rehashed with an impatient fervor that seems oblivious to the fact that people have been wondering about it and offering solutions and refutations of it for not just centuries, but millennia.

Bottom line: Either the fact of evil ruins your ability to open your heart to the divine, or it doesn't. It is exceedingly unlikely that you are going to be the first person in 3,000 years to suddenly come up with a solution to the problem of theodicy. No amount of philosophical exploration and argument will likely be able to change the mind of a person who's set on bringing against God the charge of Aggravated First-Degree Non-Existence by Reason of Bad Things in Life.

(Aside from that existential bottom line, the problem of theodicy is an interesting philosophical/historical subject to explore.)
 
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