If I believed their god existed at all, I’d view him as a vastly worse version of how they describe Satan. Creating an entire universe full of thinking, feeling beings just to torture most of them is incomprehensibly evil.
Still if you believed in the Abrahamic God you would have no choice but to choose to follow him or be subject to his wrath as he would literally define what is good and evil and he wouldn’t have to follow his own rules because he can simply will it to apply to him. Omnipotence is annoying like that.
The pastor here is completely consistent in this statement. It is equivalent to the “God works in mysterious ways” thing they always say
It’s consistent in its inconsistency. To take every single page of the Bible at face value is to be naive and unable to identify contradictory information.
If you think God created Israel (by any means necessary), I bet you would be pro-Israel. Doesn’t seem logically inconsistent
If I believed their god existed at all, I’d view him as a vastly worse version of how they describe Satan. Creating an entire universe full of thinking, feeling beings just to torture most of them is incomprehensibly evil.
Still if you believed in the Abrahamic God you would have no choice but to choose to follow him or be subject to his wrath as he would literally define what is good and evil and he wouldn’t have to follow his own rules because he can simply will it to apply to him. Omnipotence is annoying like that.
The pastor here is completely consistent in this statement. It is equivalent to the “God works in mysterious ways” thing they always say
I think we’re using different definitions of “believe”.
It’s consistent in its inconsistency. To take every single page of the Bible at face value is to be naive and unable to identify contradictory information.