So, if a topic exists on the internet in video form (as it normally does in this day and age), you require a transcript of the entire video posted in the forum threads in order for you to actually engage in the conversation in a relevant manner?
If that's the case, I find your request unreasonable, as it would be too time-consuming to transcribe the audio.
You could try reading what I wrote instead of throwing out another strawman.
If you want to make a point, how about summarizing the contents of the video in your own words? Anyone can post a video link and say "what do you think of this?"
What does me not knowing you have to do with anything? Your replies in this thread clearly show that you hold the opinion that God is unable to make mistakes. You said that the idea that God could possible owe anyone an apology cannot lead to anything constructive. From the start, you dismissed the possibility of analyzing God's behavior. That is sufficient evidence of the fact that you hold an opinion that you are unwilling to even question, much less change. I don't need to know anything else about you in order to reach this conclusion.
Well, you made lots of comments about me so the fact you clearly don't know me is directly relevant to that.
You also overlook quite a lot of nuance. If I think someone else did it wrong, maybe I'm wrong. Before jumping from "I disagree with this" to "this is wrong" it's worth considering that maybe "this is right" and "I am wrong".
There are several things about God that I don't understand. There are several things about life that I don't understand, and the list grows as I get older because the reality is that with each passing year I encounter more things that don't necessarily make sense to me. To conclude that this inherently means God got it wrong is absurd. Would I have set things up differently? Maybe. Would my way have worked out any better? Who knows - we'll never have an opportunity to find out.
It's impossible to "test all things, hold fast what is true" without, you know, testing things. Sometimes testing things leads to belief systems being shaken, and sometimes that's uncomfortable. Sometimes it's bewildering. Sometimes things you thought were true don't seem to hold up and you need to assess what beliefs are worth keeping and what are not.
Let me ask you something. In this thread alone you've talked a lot about the actions of one impacting another, and not consenting to all sorts of things. How would your world work if nothing can happen to you or around you without your express consent? Would you require every other creature to operate in silence so you wouldn't be forced to hear them? Would you want your eyes to be shuttered so you were never exposed to a sight you didn't consent to see? Would you want every aspect of chance to be removed from life, even down to being guaranteed your preferred outcome every time you attempted anything? I've had a few trips that could be regarded as wasted, like the time I made a 20-mile round trip to a mountain top to photograph the setting sun only to find the clouds rolled in at the crucial moment and I didn't get a single good picture, but instead put my camera away and enjoyed watching the light fade with my wife. Or the time I went on a scavenger hunt and spent an hour totally failing to find the hidden treasure but ended up meeting a couple who were there doing something else and subsequently getting to know them, which in turn led to meeting one of their relatives who became a good friend. Yes, I know, maybe silly God could have just done away with all the chance, allowed me to declare "I hereby consent to a new friend entering my life in 3... 2... 1... " and then have the encounter without all the back story about how I came to meet the friend. We could all be reprogrammed to not find that life to be really rather dull.
Maybe God could have made the world such that I could run a 4-minute mile while still spending my days sitting in my recliner eating pies. It would certainly be easier than the current world where I can't get anywhere near that kind of time even having cut down on the pie eating. Maybe God could have made me with a build-in recliner - perhaps an inflatable posterior that would become a recliner on demand. It would save me having to go out and buy a recliner, and it would mean I could sit in comfort wherever I happened to be. Never mind space constraints. Does God owe me an apology for the fact he made gravity work the way it does, so I can't bound over houses effortlessly - he could have made gravity subject to my ongoing consent so it could stop me floating off into space but could be suspended any time I wanted so I could float and fly.
Or maybe there's a reason for things being the way they are - the fact we might not understand the reason doesn't mean no reason exists. We can ponder "wouldn't it be nice if...." all we want. If we had our way the chances are we'd still be unhappy about something. Perhaps we'd be better off as robots with no capacity to experience joy and sorrow, love and hate, pleasure and pain. But that's not what God wanted and, if God made us, he gets to make us how he chooses.
