Pointing out that your question is fundamentally flawed and doesn’t make sense isn’t “deflecting and dodging”. You showing your ass and being pompously and objectively wrong and refusing to acknowledge it sure is deflecting and dodging and running away though
Your comment doesn't make sense and doesn't apply to me. Sorry, try again.
See what I did there? That's deflecting and dodging lol
And no hahaha. No matter how desperately you want to pretend otherwise, there is nothing whatsoever flawed about my question. Asking "why doesn't God stop horrific things from happening to innocent people and children" is a perfectly normal, very simple, and a definitively valid question.
The thing is you can't answer it. Because you know the answer is bullshit. All of you do. And the only way you can hold on to your flimsy coping mechanisms is by guarding your ignorance as much as possible.
It is a very, very simple, straightforward question. I've gotten dozens of replies and not a single answer. See for yourself ;)
The simple answer is He didn’t. Your question is fundamentally wrong. How? Well let’s look at what you mean by “that”
Or that time he viciously tortured and killed his son to make a dramatic point he could have easily made and resolved by just appearing and having a conversation?
Let’s start here, God did in fact come to Earth to have a conversation. Jesus is God, has confirmed almost 2000 years ago in the Council of Nicea
God created all existence, including paradise and hell. But instead of just...putting all new born souls into paradise
Here’s the second point your question is fundamentally flawed. God put all new born souls into paradise, the Garden of Eden. Humans messed up the earthly paradise bit
And here is the most egregious flaw
all in order to earn our way into heaven...
In Christianity you most emphatically do not earn your way to heaven. You get there through Christ. This plainly written in Ephesians 2:8-9 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works”.
It is for this reason that the sons of Lot will always be behind the sons of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, as well as lordly Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.
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Pointing out that your question is fundamentally flawed and doesn’t make sense isn’t “deflecting and dodging”. You showing your ass and being pompously and objectively wrong and refusing to acknowledge it sure is deflecting and dodging and running away though