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Name some people who were not Christians and whom you think contributed the most to the well-being of mankind. Share your thoughts on the benefits that those people brought to humanity.

So what is your view on those who lose their faith and die atheists or agnostics? Some of them having been devout Christians, members of the clergy even, with a deep knowledge of Scripture and numerous hours of prayer. Did God change His Will for them, was His Will always for them to lose their...

I endure the consequences of his sin despite the fact that God could have fixed those consequences before Adam could have had children, thus preventing any other being besides those who sinned to suffer the consequences of their ancestors' sins. And no, according to Scripture, I don't seem to...

I'm trying to say that I'm experiencing the way He does things in my life and I don't like it. I'm also trying to say that I find myself able to imagine ways in which things could be done differently. Putting the two together, I guess you could come to that conclusion, yes. I don't know enough...

I'm talking about proselytizing, not about forcing people to convert. And I disagree with your view about the example with the woman in the bar. Personally, if I saw someone putting something in anyone's drink, I'd call the police and do anything in my powers to prevent anyone from consuming...

The fact that texts can disingenuously be fragmented and misattributed is irrelevant to the fact that a text can be created so that it can express a clear message that cannot be genuinely misunderstood. I'm not referring to the people who intentionally twist / misquote Scripture to fit their...

So... appeal to fear? That's completely incompatible with a Being Who is described as love and light.

It is perfectly possible to create such a text. I genuinely don't understand where you're getting at with the examples you gave.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

If you warned a blind person of an inaudible danger that was right ahead of them and the person didn't believe you and continued to proceed towards the danger, would you let them do it because your insistence might be perceived as you forcing your belief onto someone?

It is benevolent, but, if it could have been done in any other way that did not involve suffering, it's not omnibenevolent. And what do you mean by we don't have to suffer for our salvation? There is plenty of suffering in this world. Why does anyone need to suffer for salvation? Salvation...

How do you define "to believe something"? If you define it as "to be convinced of the veracity of an information", then no, a person would not have to believe that a supreme being exists because the text would be designed in such a way as to make disbelief impossible.

From here: Penn Jillette: I don’t respect people who don’t proselytise – Diarium Neminis The famous atheist entertainer Penn Jillette once said in an online video: What are your thoughts about the ideas expressed in that quote? What is your view on proselytizing? Do you think that...

I've become tired of having dreams. The more I dream, the more disappointed I get as the years pass.

It would help quite a lot. I'd be able to afford the surgeries I need.

Of course it matters. What do you mean it doesn't matter? If God could have saved us in a way that did not involve suffering, but chose to do it in a way that involved suffering, then that would be incompatible with the claim of omnibenevolence.

If a text was given by an omnipotent Being, Who desires for all humans to be saved, and the humans had to clearly understand the text and believe in its veracity for them to be saved from eternal torment, then this text would not be designed in such a way as to be possible for it to be taken out...

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what this is about.

So what do you do about something so monumentally important as The Christian Gospel, a topic on the believing of which your eternal faith allegedly depends? Also, what are those for whom this Gospel does not align with their life experience supposed to do?

So you don't know whether He could have acted differently and not give the law?