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What about that time Moses influenced God's will to kill the Israelites? Or when God kept telling the Israelites that they should repent and return to Him all throughout the Old Testament, but they didn't? Was it God's will for them to not repent despite Him telling them to repent?

Then why do they have some absolutely conflicting opinions on doctrine? Why do Catholics believe that one has to be purged in the afterlife? Why do some Protestants believe that all you have to do is to believe and you're saved forever? Why do Orthodox think that salvation is a process, not a...

It most definitely does not. Take it from Jesus Himself: to enter life, keep the commandments. Those who endure till the end will be saved. Then there's Paul constantly telling the people to struggle, to endure, to work out their salvation, going as far as to say that he keeps his body into...

Will God heal this miraculously if we pray long enough, or do we need to get medication and therapy?

Catholics and Orthodox Christians do not believe that salvation is a one-time moment in this life, but rather a process that takes place over the course of our entire life and ends when we die. Are Catholics and Orthodox blinded by satan? If yes, then let's move on to our next question...

Ok. Give me some examples.

But it's not a free choice because one does not have control over what they value from a moral standpoint. One could find herself considering that righteousness is of ultimate importance, while another could find herself valuing self-preservation (or pleasure or lack of suffering) more than...

Yeah, I wanted Pilgrim hats too.

Wow! A Christian who doesn't believe in the existence of free will? This is not something one comes across very often. All the Christian apologists I've watched present the existence of free will as an a priori fact on which the entire Christian doctrine is based on. Except for Calvinism, I...

In another video, he literally said that the world does not needs Jews. He doesn't think that Jews are God.

A series of comics I read once on BoredPanda.com. I haven't been able to find them, as I only recall vaguely what they were about.

I don't agree. I don't perceive the world in terms of stupid and intelligent, but rather in terms of more or less deceived. We're battling supernatural entities who possess unimaginable cunningness and deceit tactics. It would be prideful to view oneself as less corruptible than others. Think of...

Yes, but they're keeping the help at a level low enough to be almost unperceivable.

What did Luther say? I'm not too familiar with his works.

Please read the entire article to get a fuller picture: Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will Here's a fragment that pretty much proves that we don't have free will: It was Arthur Schopenhauer who wrote: "Man does at all times only what he wills, and yet he...

Probably creating other worlds. Why would anyone create something without having any need? Even art, which is considered the least useful of things, is created from needs - the need to express, to decorate, to improve the world...

I am living proof that that is not true. For over 5 years I've been trying my best to follow the laws of God. You can find numerous mentions of this throughout my posts in this online community. The more I've tried to obey God, the worse my life got. Didn't the apostles follow the laws of God...

That sounds like a malefic "Hunger Games" kind of system. Why would we be send to suffer against our will and then rewarded for suffering well? I never signed up for this. I don't want to be part of this system. Why would I be punished for refusing to do something? Do you find that merciful or...

Assessing reality. If a God creates beings capable of experiencing suffering and allows said suffering, then said God is evil.