We think so.

He loves me :-)

Perhaps a better question is why human beings sometimes suffer from the inability to care for each other, rather than banking on and hoping for a theoretical being to come along and do so.

Is there a reason for god not to love us? Even sinners are loved by god…

Amen Rachel. Sure there’s a reason for him not to love us-he is by definition superior and we’re all jerks. You could say the same about us and housecats, but when you’re staring mortality in the face you can want to feel a little common ground with the funnier, more odorless quadrupeds. Whereas between us and God? How could there be a basis for empathy?

Scripture tells us that God loves us all… “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

God cannot love anyone more or less than He already does. We are all undeserving of this love but He loves us anyway. Thank God for his agape love!

I think God hates us — why else would there be so many horrible things going on, like rape and murder for example? It doesnt matter if you believe that evil people make their own choices —the fact of the matter is god could stop it if he wanted to, he just chooses not to. Pity party for god, that’s my opinion -—you gotta feel sorry for the guy - he’s obviously a very confused and deranged individual.

God loves us.
The problem with this statement is that it is at once too simple and too vast for us to comprehend. But we want to wallow in our own senses and “theorize” about if He loves us or why or how could He because of disasters. If you want to know about somebody wouldn’t you spend time with them to get to know them better and then make up your mind. The Bible contains God’s own words; it’s the way He communicates to us and the way we can get to know Him better. But we avoid it like the plague and then sit around grumbling about how God is deranged and confused. God is God…the only God. Now who is confused?

Sure, God loves us. The real question is, “now what are WE going to do with that knowledge?”
Bad things and good things happen all the time. Almost all of that is OUR (humans collectively and individually) doing. Which would you rather have happen? Then YOU do that.

A better question is- Why even ask that? I mean, who are we to question God? OFCOURSE He does!! I’ved learned that I don’t blame God for ANY bad crap that happens. Why would He create something just to hurt it or destroy it? I don’t like it when people use human emotions and attitudes for God. He does not act like His creations. That thought is deranged.
He gave us all free will. Sorry to say WE are the ones that choose what we do to eachother. Most of the time it can be some crappy stuff. No, I don’t blame God for ANY bad crap. I thank Him for th choice to do right or wrong. Today, I choose right.

The Riddle of Epicurus:

If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?

Inmy heart I feel that God still loves us all no matter what we do.

God still loves us, and if people would spend more time searching for him honestly instead of waiting around for him to show up then his graces will be made much more apparent to us all.

If you wonder why there exist so much evil in the world and it seems as if God just lets these things happen, then I offer you the comfort of knowing that everything has a way of taking care of itself as they should. All those killers and thieves are going to get what is coming to them, don’t question these things and just believe in your heart that God will sort this all out. Even if it doesn’t look like that your entire life.

The world is full of both good and evil, it’s just that people don’t seem to care anymore about who is trying to be a decent human being.

Amen brother Wolf! On that note, I’ll add this from the Cynic side;

Alexander: “I am the most powerful man in the world, what do you ask of me?”
Diogenes: “Stand out of my sunlight.”

For those of you that don’t dig-it means I choose reality. Alexander was angry at Athens, the city Diogenes lived in because they sued for a separate peace from Sparta and then his father. He’d have given Diogenes anything but Athens was going to burn. By saying what I’ve got is good enough for me, and I’ll have it in spite of you, Diogenes showed that all Alexander’s power above other men was precarious and insignificant. It didn’t make the sky bluer or the grass greener for him, just gave him more of what mankind had, which was of little cosmic import. Alexander was moved and made the most of the knowledge, riding the lightning of his destiny hard and fast while it lasted. That ladies and gentle-thiangs is why Gods love is no more than soft pink necrotic flab.

Would you like to explain that?

Wolf and Hanno, whether you know it or not you too are looking for God. You call God different things though like love, money, success, knowledge but God is already all that and that is why you will never find Him searching in the way that you are. It’s like a computer device trying to know its maker. The CPU is filled only with the knowledge the maker of the computer puts in it, so it can never really know who made it. Maybe you feel out of control in this life and you wish for some higher being to come and explain it all to you…we all do and that higher being is called God and He is as real as you are cynical. Epicurus’ Riddle does not factor in free will because God is willing and God is able but He gives you the ability to choose right from wrong, darkness from light but we don’t choose light most of the time. So He gave us a blueprint for how to know God-the Bible- and we don’t read it and we find ourselves asking these questions over and over not realizin we are like a gerbil on a ferris wheel and never getting anywhere.

If free will is a gift from god, how can any of our thoughts be deranged? How would one know if this god acts like or doesn’t act like his creations? Tis a puzzlement… In the Bible, this god seemed plenty angry with Moses and the children of Israel. He made them wander around the desert for forty years when they could have marched to Israel in less than a month. (The desert was pretty small, just look at a map.) Joseph and his brothers didn’t have to travel very long to reach Egypt in the first place, if you check those scriptures. There are many examples, especially in the old testament, where god was said to have many different emotions. For another example, god “was pleased” with the creation. God may not have written the bible, but inspired it. He inspired men to make many comments regarding his moods, emotions, etc. Read it again, if you don’t believe me. There are hundreds of verses regarding his moods and attitudes. You can open the old testament to almost any page and see how god was thinking on a particular day, month, year, decade or century. If you are going to use the bible to justify your statements, make sure you read it and also understand it. Deranged thoughts, indeed. Closed mind, definitely.

Open the New Testament and Open your mind… Definitely

Yes God still loves us no matter what. doesn’t your earthly father still love you no matter what. your earthly father taughes us from right and wrong and when we choose to do wrong thing does he step in and stop us.no he tell us of the conquest if we do these thing. but he can’t stop us from doing them.if he did that wouldn’t give us free will to do what we want. but that doesn’t mean that your father loves you any least that just like God he gave us freewill to choose what we want to do which he tell us in his word what the conquestes will be . yes i believe that God still loves us .

Yes God still loves us no matter what. doesn’t your earthly father still love you no matter what. your earthly father taughes us from right and wrong and when we choose to do wrong thing does he step in and stop us.no he tell us of the conquest if we do these thing. but he can’t stop us from doing them.if he did that wouldn’t give us free will to do what we want. but that doesn’t mean that your father loves you any least that just like God he gave us freewill to choose what we want to do which he tell us in his word what the conquestes will be . yes i believe that God still loves us .

Are you done?

Regardless of all the spam others are posting…

I’m not usually good at evangelizing and I don’t usually agree with public professions or offerings of faith, but this seems like an actually good idea to me. It’s subtle, it’s not pushy, and most importantly, it’s not judgmental – just loving.

Now?

ge3y, I agree. Whoever is behind this website doesn’t really matter to me. I really like the fact that it’s left open for interpretation.

Kookoo not sure what your point is, i think the point of free will is that its will without restriction, hence FREE will. we wouldn’t be able to appreciate the gift if we weren’t able to think of the opposite, there would be nothing to weight it against. Thats the beauty of life. Its like this huge beautiful world thats so amazing people overlook certain things, like free will. Our choice, if he wanted he could have made us mindless robots, but what’s the point of existence if we mindlessly bumble about life with no appreciation for it?

and Wolflandon, you have it backwards I believe. God is willing to prevent evil and able, BUT not always willing, but still able.

Lets say you have a son, you tell him no to do something, and 4 seconds later you say, don’t do that again, is it pointless? i would say so, like the father, God has proven himself over and over, we’re just not willing to listen.

and as for where evil comes from, evil is not really evil at all if you look at it as a thing (keep following), its more of a separation from—a separation from God, so in essence evil is just being away from love, its the “non-love” in a way. I believe he didn’t create it, we did- he gave us the ability to choose. I think evil even derives from a word that means “to be separated from” and it makes perfect sense. a vacuum is not a thing nor does it have mass, its empty space, the nonexistence or something, and no ether doesn’t fill space :]

so he is able and willing. twisting semantics around wont work here friend, either will logical fallacies. I’m not trying to attack you just so you know, just trying to get the semantics straight.