If Your Kids tell you they no longer believe in God

[the_bob_delusion]

What's the best way to respond?

[jessicadazzler97]

I couldn't handle that job haha

[the_bob_delusion]

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@jessicadazzler wrote:
I couldn't handle that job haha

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If you were God, I think you could do a much better job. 

[jessicadazzler97]

Explain that to me...

[the_bob_delusion]

Do you think you can create a world with less suffering? If so, you're doing a better job. 

[jessicadazzler97]

I don't necessarily see suffering as a bad thing. It can be good when it opens our eyes to the good of others.

[the_bob_delusion]

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@jessicadazzler wrote:
I don't necessarily see suffering as a bad thing. It can be good when it opens our eyes to the good of others.

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You know the case of Josef Fritzl right? If not I'll refresh your memory. He impressioned his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years while he repeated raped her and fathered her 7 children. I find it offensive if you think this kind of meaningless suffering is not a bad thing. 

Let me ask you, if you knew this was happening, would you do something. If so, you're a better person than God. 

[jessicadazzler97]

Yes, I would.

But God can't - that man had free will to do as he pleased. Love cannot be forced, so that's why God gave Adam & Eve free will - do you see that love can only be sincere when it is chosen, and forced? God cannot go against our free will - that man chose to do terrible things to his daughter, and he used his free will to do so. If God had made it so we had no will of our own, it would also mean we would be incapable of true emotion, because everything would be forced.
So is it wrong for God to give us free will?

[lionrose.7]

Looks like god did not give the daughter free will because she was under the will of her father, that does not sound like a loving god to me.

If we are made in Gods image and we would help why wont god

[the_bob_delusion]

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@jessicadazzler wrote:
Yes, I would.

But God can't - that man had free will to do as he pleased. Love cannot be forced, so that's why God gave Adam & Eve free will - do you see that love can only be sincere when it is chosen, and forced? God cannot go against our free will - that man chose to do terrible things to his daughter, and he used his free will to do so. If God had made it so we had no will of our own, it would also mean we would be incapable of true emotion, because everything would be forced.
So is it wrong for God to give us free will?

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You strike me as someone that has never heard any arguments against "free Will". Maybe think about what you have just said above. You said you'll do things differently to God. Ask yourself why? If you're all loving and all powerful how would things be different?

[jessicadazzler97]

If you have any young children in your family, you would understand that sometimes, you have to let them figure things out for themselves. God is the same with us.