Anonymous #1 1d

Enlighten me

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Anonymous OP 1d

Everyone suffers. Jesus doesn’t say Give that 12 year old cancer 🤪.

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Anonymous #2 1d

Atheist, against all religion it’s all coping

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Anonymous OP 1d

ok

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Anonymous #1 1d

Then what’s your justification if there is an all loving higher being for giving children cancer and letting them die a painful death. Don’t go around saying this being you believe in is all love if the things in this world are inherently evil if they are behind it.

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Anonymous #1 1d

Dude, they’re saying if god is all riteous all the time, what is riteous about children dying of cancer while rapists and murderers live free. I genuinely don’t know how you misunderstood that

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Anonymous #5 1d

I don’t see how this relates to

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Anonymous #3 1d

Just shows how “loving” it all is. 😂

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Anonymous #4 1d

Talking about how people who don’t believe will be judged for the evils they did here on earth, evil people will be judged

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Anonymous #8 23h

Nice cope. Sin isn’t real.

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Anonymous #5 15h

How exactly are all the kids in the cancer ward evil?

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Anonymous #4 15h

My faith is not a coping mechanism.

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Anonymous #4 15h

If you’d like to have a real conversation though, let me know.

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Anonymous #8 11h

It absolutely is a coping mechanism. It’s what you use to fill in the gaps of your knowledge.

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Anonymous #3 11h

Because they were destined to disobey this little “god” when he set them on their path in life. Used to teach their families a lesson. It’s all part of some bigger plan. Blah blah blah.

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Anonymous #1 9h

To the extent that you believe Jesus is the son of god and a reflection of gods divinity, and furthermore that there is only one god, omnipotent and omniscient, who created all the universe and, by nature of their omniscient powers knew all that would follow (human life, 12 y/os getting cancer, rapists getting elected president) you also believe that god made the choice to give those kids cancer, no? God if god is all powerful, he could have made it so kids don’t get cancer.

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Anonymous #10 9h

If god was all powerful and let those kids get cancer anyways for some greater purpose, I think that’s immoral, if god didn’t make kids immune to cancer because god doesn’t have that much power, god isn’t all powerful, which the bible is pretty clear on. Seems like it doesn’t really add up. God either thinks it’s moral/divinely righteous for kids to get cancer, or god is not all powerful (in which case we prolly shouldn’t call it god.)

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Anonymous #10 8h

“I think that’s immoral” That’s exactly it. Majority of us have a sense of morality, but there are some people who just want evil pure evil in the world. The world we live in is a result of the hearts of people who think it’s okay to murder and lie and rape. Yes this world is so hard to understand. But as Christians we also believe this world isn’t for us we’re just visiting. While child cancer is so difficult to deal with in every capacity and feels unjust there is also a hope and faith that

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Anonymous #9 8h

Injustice is justified even more gloriously than we can imagine in the afterlife.

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Anonymous #10 8h

I would rather accept that the sweet babies are at peace, and loved, and done so much better in heaven than simply accept that their only fate is cancer on earth. They’re more valuable than that.

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Anonymous #9 8h

I dont blame you, I hate that I believe the later; it makes me depressed. But you said it, injustices are justified even more gloriously THEN WE CAN IMAGINE. The idea is comforting, but comfort isn’t truth. Truth is knowing that unless we figure out how to treat cancer, it will kill people. Truth is knowing that unless we know why people rape, and how to stop them, they will continue. If we think that the victims, of either cosmic luck (cancer) or malicious humans (rape) get a happy ending…

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Anonymous #9 8h

Ah, yes… genocide and contradictions abounding is totally love and truth.

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Anonymous #10 8h

I think we likely accept those vile aspects of life more easily. We become less inclined to help others because we know they will have eternal happiness, so long as they are good Christian’s. You say we are visitors in this world, but I think we ARE this world. I would rather accept the fact that people are horrible to one another and suffer for no reason and I can do something about that than accept that this suffering is the nature of the world by gods command, and that’s just how it is.

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Anonymous #10 8h

I think your perspective is more Christian than you think as well. Christianity isn’t about being good, it’s about love. Jesus most important commandments were to love above all else in fact he says all other laws rely on loving God and other people. I think your heart for people is so beautiful and wanting to pursue justice for people is so admirable. I hope to only share what I know about faith and a deeply complex topic. But you are 100% right we do need to be doing what we can to help!

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Anonymous #9 7h

I’m not surprised you said this. I was born Christian and was baptized. On the whole I think what Jesus tells us about how to treat each other is correct. Love your neighbor, the sick, the poor, the stranger, love your enemy and wish the best upon them. If everybody did this world would be better. But I think needing to justify and enforce that view on the basis of divinity sells the morality of humanity short and removes accountability.

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Anonymous #9 4h

I am also curious while I maybe still have your attention as to how you deal with scientific principles and theories in regard to creation. Do you think God chose for the atoms to line up in such a way that life would occur and humans would be born of it? I think that arguing on Noah’s ark or genesis is reductive because it’s a story with a message first and a historical account second, but if god is all knowing how can we have free will? Are our futures not decided?

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