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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God is like a parent.  Sometimes two siblings might want the same thing, but the parent better understands what each child needs.

[b]God is a parent who understands EXACTLY what you need.[/b]  And sometimes it’s not a life where everything goes exactly how you want and nothing bad happens to you.[/quote]

and sometimes that is deadly cancer for one person and a long life of health and luxury for another.  Sort of like luck, except a deity is being consulted.[/quote]

If there is a God and an afterlife then death is not as bad of an outcome as a long life of luxury that leads to eternity in a bad place.

If your soul will exist for eternity, then Everything on Earth is so tiny, including your suffering.[/quote]

The person who lived a long life of luxury could also go to heaven --  a great life on earth and a great reward in heaven too![/quote]

The Bible discusses this in some detail- I recommend you bother to read it![/quote]

The Bible is a big book -- can you direct us to the verses that cover this issue?[/quote]

You can totally google this on your own.  Or better yet, read the New Testament or gospels yourself.  Maybe if more people actually did that this forum would less mediocre.  I have faith in you![/quote]

IOW" read the bible -- you'll be a better person for it and pp doesn't know of any particular passages anyhow.

Meanwhile, many people have given up religion after reading the Bible.  There's some wisdom there, yes, but also some crazy stuff like  what foods not to eat and clothes not to wear and the talking donkey.[/quote]

I actually do know exactly which verses are applicable here (namely Mark 10:17-31 and hello most of the Bible) but no, I haven’t been impressed with the amount of knowledge on this forum about the Bible.  It’s basically a bunch of ignoramuses pontificating on something they hardly know.  Very few people seem to know anything about the Bible other than as you say, there are rules on what foods to eat (gasp! Rules about eating in a time where there were all kinds of diseases associated with unsanitary conditions!!) and some random “impossible” thing they saw on some atheist reddit post like there was a talking donkey, which wasn’t even the most interesting part of that story.

Context matters and you don’t have context if I throw out random verses.  Many people in the Bible were rich and had luxury in their time but their lives weren’t easy.  Even the best humans torpedo their own relatively easy lives and have to ask God for help- this is a continuous theme in the Old Testament.  Without reading the Bible you don’t understand the themes, the progression, the path.  You just snark on the web and make yourself look foolish.
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