oh my word this thread has brought out the loony tunes. so people who have disabilities have NOTHING in life to be glad about or enjoy. got it. you people aren't even capable of rational discussion on the matter.

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so jesus volunteered or was he sent with a single purpose? because he sure was killed in the book

phil 2:7

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There are more ways to show your other plants you love then than by stepping on a flower and killing it

ridiculously stupid analogy. god did not step on a flower. a flower willing gave itself for the plants because the plants were harming themselves in the long run. i can't even fix that analogy it's so dumb

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Thats a game i dont even want to play with rules like that

how is it supposed to be different and how do you know better?

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why would an all caring all loving god even have the idea of suffering? why create it at all?

i want to know why you think life should have no suffering and why that would be better. my word it's a simple freaking question and none of you halfwits will answer it

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the devil is good, evil is good, sin is good

god did not create what those things do. god allowed creation to have free choice; us, the devil. we choose to go our own way sometimes. augustine described that as privatio boni, the absence of the good. if god didn't allow that, you and the sycophants would be screaming that god was unjust for not giving us freewill.

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killing babies with your holy spirit good

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giving children cancer and other diseases so they live short painful lives is good?

when you won't answer the question, it causes you to make statements like this. first, good does come from these things even though you're too shortsighted to see it. genesis 50:20. second, how is a life without suffering better than this one? god creates a need for our own good. some people are not strong enough to deal with it so they throw a temper tantrum like you're doing. others see the purpose in it. the crazy thing is not believing in god makes all suffering in life purposeless which is philosophically stupid. how in the world should we know life has no purpose if it had no purpose.

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so believe in god only and nothing else matters?

how could anything "matter" if god doesn't exist? it wouldn't and you wouldn't even know it wouldn't.

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a book written and composed by man

does that make it wrong/false?

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please forgive me if i dont trust "man"

so people NEVER tell the truth? what if they're inspired by god?

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especially those 1500-3000 years ago

good grief. how old are you? 16? old does not equal false.

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I find it ignorant to blindly believe that the bible just one day magically appeared in its final form as we know it today.

who said anything like this?

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It took several hundred years to shape, mold, remove books, translate

what books were removed? what parts were changed and how would you even know? what parts are inaccurate and how would you know? i have a feeling you know basically nothing about this subject. you probably got these opinions from watching the da vinci code.