Why did God create pediatric cancer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either God doesn't exist. Or God is incredibly cruel.

That is simplistic and a misunderstanding of what God is and is not. If the world must be your literal Garden of Eden in order for God to exist, you have a ways to go on your path of understanding. Even Jesus suffered in Human form.

You can spin it however you want, but there has never been a convincing way to reconcile an omnipotent god, a loving god, and infant mortality

That is your completely acceptable opinion. Other people have their completely acceptable opinion. No one here is asking you to change your opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either God doesn't exist. Or God is incredibly cruel.

That is simplistic and a misunderstanding of what God is and is not. If the world must be your literal Garden of Eden in order for God to exist, you have a ways to go on your path of understanding. Even Jesus suffered in Human form.

But this whole Garden of Eden story does not make sense when you consider what we know about the Big Bang theory. Humans weren’t around at the start of the formation of life on earth so who is recording these stories. And how are we not all now genetically related to 2 people? How did we get different races on different continents just from Adam and Eve. Most reasonably educated Christians I know do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Also, why is the Christian Bible with Eden the true religion and not any of the 4,200 world religions? Are the people who were born into Christianity just lucky to be have raised into the one true religion unlike those kids in remote villages who will never have the opportunity to be baptized? Why would God give some people a leg up on having the correct beliefs and not others?

The only logical conclusion is thar humans have made up stories to make sense of the world. Where you were born determines which set of stories you believe. And then in turn people go cause wars over these made up stories in the name of some God who would want them to murder people in His name? (Hint: the terrorists we hate also think they’re doing the Lord’s work).

I’ll add though that I’m not 100% sure there is no God or intelligent creator or something more out there we don’t understand. I just think the religious stories about the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark, etc. can be disproven by modern day genetics. Perhaps there is a God who loves us out there, but we humans sure like the weaponize our religious beliefs against women, gays, people with other beliefs, etc. and then vote to give ourselves a tax break for it.

Noted. I have a different opinion. Thanks for sharing yours, please feel free to believe your opinion and live your life as you choose. Make sure you remember to give people who have different opinions than your opinions the same respect to believe as they wish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If God can’t save an innocent person from suffering, then he isn’t omnipotent, is he? He can’t be both benevolent and omnipotent. The two are mutually exclusive in this case.

So in your view, God should exist to please us? Keep us safe, happy, help us achieve our desires?

I think any objective observer can see that there is something deeply flawed with humanity. We do things we know are wrong. Not just do things that are wrong but we often enjoy doing things that we know are wrong and hurtful to others. We have an internal consciousness but fight it at times. Animals don't do this. Everything in this world follows the "rules" put upon them. Rocks, on earth, will drop because they follow the laws of gravity. Lions are vicious and kill but do not do so for pure enjoyment. anyone would recognize that human evil goes way beyond. It is not a matter of linear progression from the animal world but a totally different plane.

So in this context, do you think God should aim to please us, who are greatly flawed? Any correction from God will feel horrible to us because it is not because God is mean or evil, but because we are flawed. Think of real life. Anything worth achieving requires a huge amount of sacrifice, pain, and sometimes suffering. Those who live a sheltered life often do not gain the wisdom and maturity of those who have been through difficult period of life. This is just how things are.

This is actually not true. Have you seen what Orcas can do? There is absolutely thrill killing (ever seen a cat play with a bird), rape, infanticide, etc. in the animal kingdom. They do not have a consciousness to the level that humans do, but many display intelligence, empathy, ability to help or harm others, etc. Let’s not pretend animals are just out there following some set of rules for survival and never do anything like kill or maim for fun.

I agree with you humanity is deeply flawed (and we have more tools, language, etc. than any other animal to overcome these flaws if we wanted). But we aren’t alone in the universe as far as doing some messed up stuff.

Animals do not sin. They are incapable of sin because they were not created as independent moral agents.

Sin does not begin with the act; it originates in a soul that has the law of God written upon it (Romans 2:15; James 1:14). Human beings are created in the image of God with an everlasting soul (Genesis 1:27). Animals are not created in the image of God.

Animals can choose to do things others want them to do, but that is trained into them using treats. Unfortunately, some people train animals to react in aggressive or harmful ways by physically punishment and pain.

The moral laws of God do not apply to animals.


Now if you do not believe in God, this will not make sense to you. Nobody here is asking anyone to believe in God or believe any of this stuff. The people who don’t believe in God and don’t believe this stuff, that’s perfectly fine. You have no need to believe anything. However, lots of people do believe this stuff. Their belief should be respected, the same as someone’s disbelief.

Wut? Bottle nose dolphins engage in gang rape because they’re fed treats by humans? Primates engage in infanticide for power over women because humans have trained them to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If God can’t save an innocent person from suffering, then he isn’t omnipotent, is he? He can’t be both benevolent and omnipotent. The two are mutually exclusive in this case.

So in your view, God should exist to please us? Keep us safe, happy, help us achieve our desires?

I think any objective observer can see that there is something deeply flawed with humanity. We do things we know are wrong. Not just do things that are wrong but we often enjoy doing things that we know are wrong and hurtful to others. We have an internal consciousness but fight it at times. Animals don't do this. Everything in this world follows the "rules" put upon them. Rocks, on earth, will drop because they follow the laws of gravity. Lions are vicious and kill but do not do so for pure enjoyment. anyone would recognize that human evil goes way beyond. It is not a matter of linear progression from the animal world but a totally different plane.

So in this context, do you think God should aim to please us, who are greatly flawed? Any correction from God will feel horrible to us because it is not because God is mean or evil, but because we are flawed. Think of real life. Anything worth achieving requires a huge amount of sacrifice, pain, and sometimes suffering. Those who live a sheltered life often do not gain the wisdom and maturity of those who have been through difficult period of life. This is just how things are.

This is actually not true. Have you seen what Orcas can do? There is absolutely thrill killing (ever seen a cat play with a bird), rape, infanticide, etc. in the animal kingdom. They do not have a consciousness to the level that humans do, but many display intelligence, empathy, ability to help or harm others, etc. Let’s not pretend animals are just out there following some set of rules for survival and never do anything like kill or maim for fun.

I agree with you humanity is deeply flawed (and we have more tools, language, etc. than any other animal to overcome these flaws if we wanted). But we aren’t alone in the universe as far as doing some messed up stuff.

Animals do not sin. They are incapable of sin because they were not created as independent moral agents.

Sin does not begin with the act; it originates in a soul that has the law of God written upon it (Romans 2:15; James 1:14). Human beings are created in the image of God with an everlasting soul (Genesis 1:27). Animals are not created in the image of God.

Animals can choose to do things others want them to do, but that is trained into them using treats. Unfortunately, some people train animals to react in aggressive or harmful ways by physically punishment and pain.

The moral laws of God do not apply to animals.


Now if you do not believe in God, this will not make sense to you. Nobody here is asking anyone to believe in God or believe any of this stuff. The people who don’t believe in God and don’t believe this stuff, that’s perfectly fine. You have no need to believe anything. However, lots of people do believe this stuff. Their belief should be respected, the same as someone’s disbelief.

Wut? Bottle nose dolphins engage in gang rape because they’re fed treats by humans? Primates engage in infanticide for power over women because humans have trained them to?

Animals can be obedient to humans via treats, training, or physical control.

Animals however aren’t sinning when they act like animals because they were not created in God’s image and have no souls.

Animals act like animals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

Absolutely no one cares what you believe. Please, continue to not believe in God. Reject God and everything related to God, continue to think the Bible is made up stories. Go ham on not believing in God. Nobody cares.

Give people who do have religious beliefs respect for their beliefs as your disbelief is respected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

I have answered your question and you refuse to answer mine: do you believe in God?

I have zero interest in asking you to agree with my opinions or beliefs.

All I ask is you live your life as you wish and every other human be able to do the same, as they wish. Nobody here wants to convert you or prove anything to you or anyone else posting here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either God doesn't exist. Or God is incredibly cruel.

That is simplistic and a misunderstanding of what God is and is not. If the world must be your literal Garden of Eden in order for God to exist, you have a ways to go on your path of understanding. Even Jesus suffered in Human form.

But this whole Garden of Eden story does not make sense when you consider what we know about the Big Bang theory. Humans weren’t around at the start of the formation of life on earth so who is recording these stories. And how are we not all now genetically related to 2 people? How did we get different races on different continents just from Adam and Eve. Most reasonably educated Christians I know do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Also, why is the Christian Bible with Eden the true religion and not any of the 4,200 world religions? Are the people who were born into Christianity just lucky to be have raised into the one true religion unlike those kids in remote villages who will never have the opportunity to be baptized? Why would God give some people a leg up on having the correct beliefs and not others?

The only logical conclusion is thar humans have made up stories to make sense of the world. Where you were born determines which set of stories you believe. And then in turn people go cause wars over these made up stories in the name of some God who would want them to murder people in His name? (Hint: the terrorists we hate also think they’re doing the Lord’s work).

I’ll add though that I’m not 100% sure there is no God or intelligent creator or something more out there we don’t understand. I just think the religious stories about the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark, etc. can be disproven by modern day genetics. Perhaps there is a God who loves us out there, but we humans sure like the weaponize our religious beliefs against women, gays, people with other beliefs, etc. and then vote to give ourselves a tax break for it.

Noted. I have a different opinion. Thanks for sharing yours, please feel free to believe your opinion and live your life as you choose. Make sure you remember to give people who have different opinions than your opinions the same respect to believe as they wish.

I do try to respect people’s religious beliefs when they are respectful. Unfortunately many religious people in society cause harm upon others through forcing their beliefs into law (e.g. overturning Roe and trying to legislate access to birth control; up until 2015 not allowing same sex marriages; not paying taxes). If people just kept to themselves about their religion there would be no issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

I have answered your question and you refuse to answer mine: do you believe in God?

I have zero interest in asking you to agree with my opinions or beliefs.

All I ask is you live your life as you wish and every other human be able to do the same, as they wish. Nobody here wants to convert you or prove anything to you or anyone else posting here.

I am open to the idea of God or a higher energy existing. I do not believe 1 of thousands of religions is the absolute correct religion.

I have no problem if people want to pray, attend ceremonies, celebrate holidays, etc. If you want to believe God allows babies to die of cancer, well I 100% support that right too (although I have respectfully posted why I disagree).

Unfortunately I have not always been shown the same respect in turn. I grew up down south in the 90s where there was a lot of pressure even *at public school* to sign purity pledges. Friends and their parents would pressure me to go to church and tell me I was going to hell if I didn’t (as a child at that!) What a loving thing to say to a 12 year old. And now my right to access reproductive healthcare is being limited because of other people’s religious beliefs. So yeah I take issue with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either God doesn't exist. Or God is incredibly cruel.

That is simplistic and a misunderstanding of what God is and is not. If the world must be your literal Garden of Eden in order for God to exist, you have a ways to go on your path of understanding. Even Jesus suffered in Human form.

But this whole Garden of Eden story does not make sense when you consider what we know about the Big Bang theory. Humans weren’t around at the start of the formation of life on earth so who is recording these stories. And how are we not all now genetically related to 2 people? How did we get different races on different continents just from Adam and Eve. Most reasonably educated Christians I know do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Also, why is the Christian Bible with Eden the true religion and not any of the 4,200 world religions? Are the people who were born into Christianity just lucky to be have raised into the one true religion unlike those kids in remote villages who will never have the opportunity to be baptized? Why would God give some people a leg up on having the correct beliefs and not others?

The only logical conclusion is thar humans have made up stories to make sense of the world. Where you were born determines which set of stories you believe. And then in turn people go cause wars over these made up stories in the name of some God who would want them to murder people in His name? (Hint: the terrorists we hate also think they’re doing the Lord’s work).

I’ll add though that I’m not 100% sure there is no God or intelligent creator or something more out there we don’t understand. I just think the religious stories about the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark, etc. can be disproven by modern day genetics. Perhaps there is a God who loves us out there, but we humans sure like the weaponize our religious beliefs against women, gays, people with other beliefs, etc. and then vote to give ourselves a tax break for it.

Noted. I have a different opinion. Thanks for sharing yours, please feel free to believe your opinion and live your life as you choose. Make sure you remember to give people who have different opinions than your opinions the same respect to believe as they wish.

I do try to respect people’s religious beliefs when they are respectful. Unfortunately many religious people in society cause harm upon others through forcing their beliefs into law (e.g. overturning Roe and trying to legislate access to birth control; up until 2015 not allowing same sex marriages; not paying taxes). If people just kept to themselves about their religion there would be no issue.

Ok, I am not going to get into politics.

It’s obvious that you won’t answer my question about believing in God that you don’t. That’s your choice and nobody here is trying to change your opinion. Politics is a separate forum. If someone in society is hurting you or others, call 911. People will come and stop you from being hurt, hopefully.


This forum is not for political debate. You are welcome to your political opinion but I have no interest in talking about your political opinion. You should respect other people’s views and opinions, as yours are, and not inappropriately bring politics into religious discussion. People here don’t talk about their political opinions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

I have answered your question and you refuse to answer mine: do you believe in God?

I have zero interest in asking you to agree with my opinions or beliefs.

All I ask is you live your life as you wish and every other human be able to do the same, as they wish. Nobody here wants to convert you or prove anything to you or anyone else posting here.

I am open to the idea of God or a higher energy existing. I do not believe 1 of thousands of religions is the absolute correct religion.

I have no problem if people want to pray, attend ceremonies, celebrate holidays, etc. If you want to believe God allows babies to die of cancer, well I 100% support that right too (although I have respectfully posted why I disagree).

Unfortunately I have not always been shown the same respect in turn. I grew up down south in the 90s where there was a lot of pressure even *at public school* to sign purity pledges. Friends and their parents would pressure me to go to church and tell me I was going to hell if I didn’t (as a child at that!) What a loving thing to say to a 12 year old. And now my right to access reproductive healthcare is being limited because of other people’s religious beliefs. So yeah I take issue with that.

Ok sorry you are not able to process your feelings about your childhood. Nobody here cares about what you believe or don’t believe. Maybe read the room and realize you aren’t not being disrespected here. You are talking about abortion repeatedly and this is not the place to argue about the political issues surrounding abortion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Quoting your religious texts to support that your religion is real is such circular logic. What support is there for any of this beyond the book telling people to believe in what the book says?

I have answered your question and you refuse to answer mine: do you believe in God?

I have zero interest in asking you to agree with my opinions or beliefs.

All I ask is you live your life as you wish and every other human be able to do the same, as they wish. Nobody here wants to convert you or prove anything to you or anyone else posting here.

I am open to the idea of God or a higher energy existing. I do not believe 1 of thousands of religions is the absolute correct religion.

I have no problem if people want to pray, attend ceremonies, celebrate holidays, etc. If you want to believe God allows babies to die of cancer, well I 100% support that right too (although I have respectfully posted why I disagree).

Unfortunately I have not always been shown the same respect in turn. I grew up down south in the 90s where there was a lot of pressure even *at public school* to sign purity pledges. Friends and their parents would pressure me to go to church and tell me I was going to hell if I didn’t (as a child at that!) What a loving thing to say to a 12 year old. And now my right to access reproductive healthcare is being limited because of other people’s religious beliefs. So yeah I take issue with that.

Ok sorry you are not able to process your feelings about your childhood. Nobody here cares about what you believe or don’t believe. Maybe read the room and realize you aren’t not being disrespected here. You are talking about abortion repeatedly and this is not the place to argue about the political issues surrounding abortion.

you are not being disrespected here, sorry mistyped

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Answer this question: Is there free will in heaven?

That's like asking if there are butterflies in the Mariana Trench.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*So you would create non-humans without their own thoughts and feelings.*

Sorry, the first sentence was mistyped.

I never said that. God can’t create a space or people with free will but no evil?

Well then heaven is gonna SUCK.

So how can people have free will if God takes the ability of humans to choose for themselves away?


Free will is free. Totally free. Free will is not predetermined, programmed, AI creatures that look like humans, talk like humans, but aren’t human. Humans are individual beings.


We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

Heaven is a different place than earth. But really since you don’t believe in God, why do you care? You don’t believe in any of this stuff; why are you so worried about it?

This has zero bearing on your life, why is it so important you endlessly debate things you don’t believe in?

Answer this question: Is there free will in heaven?

That's like asking if there are butterflies in the Mariana Trench.

The question has been answered, there’s free will in heaven.

Do you believe in God?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens if 100,000 people all want to be President of the US; only that will make them happy?

Or a person wants to be able to fly to be happy?

Or people want to be animals, let’s say people want to be dogs or horses or tigers? you are going to turn them into the animal? It will make them happy?

So everyone can’t get their way is what you are saying. And so God in your view picks and chooses who to help? And sometimes lets pediatric cancer patients die. Which is why many of us say “that’s not a god worth following”.

I have never seen a post asking anyone to change their beliefs about religion here. Perhaps there have been posts in the history of this forum asking people to believe in a religion or a God, but I haven’t seen them.

Nobody cares that you don’t believe in God. Nobody is asking you to change your opinion about being religious or not being religious. It’s completely up to each person to decide what they believe and how they choose to live their lives.

I respect your opinion and non-belief , and you should respect the opinions and beliefs of everyone posting here. If someone was attacking you for your disbelief or mocking your opinions, I could see why you would want to defend your right to choose your disbelief. But no one cares. No one wants to convince you of anything.

People who don’t believe in God don’t believe in God. People who believe in God (whatever God or religion that makes sense to them, comforts them, etc) believe in God.

How is that something that must be debated? It’s simple. People have different views and beliefs. It will always be that way and the best thing to do is respect each person.