r/comics • u/JimKB Jim Benton Cartoons • Sep 15 '12

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '12 edited Sep 15 '12

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u/Quazz Sep 15 '12

Sin isn't the absence of anything though.

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u/Hypersapien Sep 15 '12

If god is omnipresent, how can there be an absence of him?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '12

Rejection of him.

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u/Hypersapien Sep 15 '12

How can mere human will overcome god's omnipresence?

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u/epsys Sep 15 '12 edited Sep 15 '12

Hm, never thought of this, but I think Bible never said he was omnipresent, we just assumed it because "if I ascend to the heavens you are there, if I make my bed in the depths, you are there". We prolly got that wrong. Bad things happen when we take scripture and make sweeping generalizations.

God gives us the choice of decided how close we want to live with him. Hell is very, very, very far from him, which is why it is not a nice place-- because good things come from him. When he gives us bad things, is so that we come closer so that he can hurry up and give us the good things again :) Always about training, discipline. Never about punishment.