Why is There Death and Suffering if God is all Loving

[total relism]

It should be confirmed with figures. Otherwise it is an arbitrary statement. IMO, both sides have a nasty record.



If an atheist lives a life that God would generally approve of, but doesn't go to church - he is a lower creature than a Christian who steals, cheats, abuses drugs, but once a week goes to church to confess?

Agreed, i save those stats for a thread more relevant.


I will get into this on another thread in the future as it often needs to be exsplained in more time that i would care to give on this thread.

[Shaka_Khan]

I went to a Christian school for a year when I was a kid. That school avoided the Old Testament.

[Gilrandir]

I went to a Christian school for a year when I was a kid. That school avoided the Old Testament.

Then you couldn't have seen the whole picture. According to total relism.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Catholics are taught both testaments. We are also taught -- and yes I am simplifying here -- that the new covenant supersedes the old covenants. Thus the Old Testament is the necessary background and precursor for understanding the Gospels.

[Shaka_Khan]

I was considered as a troublesome student there, and the teacher wasn't fond of me. Part of the reason was that I talked about the world being older than some thousands of years, and that humans didn't come to existence until much much later in Earth's years.

I read the Old Testament at home, so I know what the OP is talking about.

[total relism]

I went to a Christian school for a year when I was a kid. That school avoided the Old Testament.

Sad but true. Gods word starts in genesis and the bible cannot be made sense of without it. They avoid it for reasons such as my op and other threads related.