susanblange Loc: USA

God created us because he was lonely, he created earth as a habitat for man and he created Israel for his glory. The purpose of life is life itself. It is God's will for all of us to transcend this physical, earthly existence, enter Heaven when we die, and live forever with God. This was the purpose of the covenant God made with Israel. They include the Jews, and people of northwestern European descent. God will make a new, everlasting covenant with all of mankind. The righteous have hope in their death (Proverbs 14:32), and they will take part in the resurrection with God (Zechariah 14:5). Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil".

thinksense

"It is God's will for all of us to transcend this physical, earthly existence, enter Heaven when we die, and live forever with God. "


Forever?
What a horrible, boring punishment that would be. I hope you are wrong on this.

Kevyn

So pretty much the world is like Gods aquarium or zoo but he burns those in an eternal hell who don’t absolutely believe in him? Why would he care or demand belief without showing himself?

susanblange Loc: USA

Do you consider living on earth boring? The righteous meek will inherit the earth with God. Zechariah 14:5. "...and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee". God is coming to live on and rule the earth forever. The Temple in Jerusalem will be his dwelling place. Prior to king Saul, God was the King of Israel. God is coming to reclaim that throne. King David has been reincarnated and will be the governor of Israel. God will be the King of the Universe and the ruler of the world. He will be anointed by the Jews.

susanblange Loc: USA

God is present on earth today and he has already shown himself. He ended the Cold war, and the war in Ireland between the Protestants and Catholics, he restored p***e to the US military and in 1988 he began to get the Jews out of Russia. I am not a Christian and there is no fire in Hell, the fire is going to be on earth. Right now it doesn't matter what your religious beliefs are. Only the wicked go to Hell. The Christian god is portrayed as a sado-masochist who tortures people forever. Hell is not physical torture, it is mental terror. All sin is conceived of in the mind before being acted upon. Hell is a black hole. It is darkness, freezing cold, hyper-gravity, and a bottomless pit. It is also not forever. Eventually your spirit will be extinguished and you will cease to exist.

thinksense

“Only the wicked go to Hell.”
Since this God you seem to believe in has created all the things in our universe, including the humans, then it has created these “wicked people”. And don’t give me the "free will” B.S. excuse.

The “creator” created and programmed every creature’s brains with instincts designed to let that creature live for a while on this earth, didn’t it? So your God is actually responsible for every thought that brain comes up with. If God’s given brain came up with something “harmful, sinful, or wicked,” by God’s way of thinking, God is the original designer of that, isn’t it?

What could be more dishonest and evil than to blame the brain user for what the God created brain causes it’s user to do? I don’t think I like your God .

(Btw, this God of yours, What color is she?)

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Have you ever been around many folks with Cerebral Palsy? Most of the time they're as happy as a lark, despite their awful debilitations. Know why? They aren't subject to greed, avarice, jealousy - and all the other juicy human traits that make life so interesting.

susanblange Loc: USA

You are right. God created everything, including evil. Isaiah 45:7. "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things". We are all born with an evil inclination and we are all sinners. But we are not all wicked. The wicked are also called "the guilty" and they are those who have committed a deadly sin and those who refuse to repent of their sin. Mankind was God's crowning creation. But Adam was pure evil and when he died and went to Heaven, his name was changed to Satan. The creation of Satan was a side effect of the creation of man. It was a necessary evil in the creative process. Life is symmetrical and everything has its opposite. We all choose our destiny. God asks us to choose good and live. My God is Israeli/White, of European descent. SOS 5:10. "My beloved is white and ruddy..."

susanblange Loc: USA

I think those are some of the Christian seven deadly sins, aren't they? I don't even know why they call them deadly because the only sin they say is unforgiveable is blasphemy of the holy Spirit. They are emotions and you cannot control them. The God of Israel experiences jealousy, but I don't think it is a sin, let alone a deadly sin. But there are seven deadly sins. Christians think they have a lock on eternal life, but the T***h is most of them are not going to make it. Satan is very clever and he has deceived them into thinking he is God.

thinksense

“Mankind was God's crowning creation.”

Well, a lot of things, what we call living/animate or nonliving/inanimate would disagree with you. For instance a beautiful, tiny Hummingbird was just having a bit to eat at the feeding station and when I read to it what you had written, it laughed so hard it fell off the swing. I mean, it assured me that everyone knows that Hummingbirds are Gods crowning creation.

It seems that you religion dazed people miss seeing the universe for what it really is, a vivid dream.

Like the story Christians parrot about the great sacrifice that God made by giving it’s only Son to be "k**led" as a blood sacrifice to expiate the “sins” with which humanity (and ONLY humanity) is cursedly afflicted, before even being born?????

My Hummingbird assures me that she and her kind don’t have that "original sin" junk h*****g over their heads. Just those darn devil worshiping cats and hawks up there.

Of course God, like all good parents makes sure that it’s son doesn’t really suffer too much, (although as I understand it, Jesus didn’t see it that way, and is said to have cried out to his parent asking why he was abandoned and left to suffer so much. “Hey! This h*****g here in the hot sun is a bit much. And a storm is coming, You want me to catch cold ? And then I’ve got to spend how long lying on a hard rock in a cave, before I can get up and continue my business?”

Not real...it’s all a dream.

susanblange Loc: USA

I am not a Christian and I do not believe in "original sin". If there is such a thing as original sin, only males inherit it. You've heard the saying that all men are dogs. What Adam and Eve did was a sexual act and the serpent was a part of Adam's anatomy. That is one of the reasons for circumcision. Nobody can die for sin in place of another. The soul that sins will die. Crucifixion is not part of biblical prophecy. Psalm 22 and Psalm 69 are about something totally different. Jesus wanted to be crucified because he thought it would fulfill prophecy. It didn't. Jesus is Lucifer, Satan's counterfeit messiah. Lucifer means "morning star" and that was who Jesus claimed to be. Revelation 22:16. Jesus also went to Heaven when he died and he has also been reincarnated. This time, both Satan and Lucifer are going to Hell.

thinksense

“If there is such a thing as original sin, only males inherit it. You've heard the saying that all men are dogs.”

Of course. Since a male canine is called a “Dog”, I assume that means that what we call the female of the species is a “B**ch”.
Oh, that explains why I keep getting called a “son of a B**ch”. And here I was under the impression that we were “humans”. No wonder all those females were chasing me and wagging their tails when I was younger.
Man, did they work hard to make themselves attractive to me and my fellow males. Spent hours every day painting over their less attractive areas, going to the hairdressers and picking out “sexy clothes”.
The females were constantly setting traps and talking about making a “Good Catch”. Now I finally understand what was going on. Just canine activities. I finally get it. (Being a doctor I was considered a “Good Catch”. And here all these years, [60 years married to the same woman] I thought she put up with me because of my bright, intelligent personality and fabulously good looks.)

“This time, both Satan and Lucifer are going to Hell.”
This one confuses me. Is Satan one character and Lucifer another? I’m lost here.

susanblange Loc: USA

You must be in your eighties. It's going to be hard to affect any change in you at that age. Psalm 49:19. "He shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light". I am also a doctor-of theology, and my significant other is a child psychiatrist. We have been together for over 41 years. What type of medicine did you practice? Satan and Lucifer are two different people and together they comprise "the devil". Satan is Adam the serpent, and Lucifer is Jesus. They are father and son. In the NT, Jesus is called the second and last Adam. Jesus is Satan's counterfeit messiah. Satan means "adversary", and Lucifer means "morning star". In Revelation 22:16, Jesus claims to be the morning star. Satan is supposed to be the carnal father of the Messiah, but Satan is Jesus' god and his spiritual father.