Why do some people/religions murder and say it is Gods will.
I'm not a religious person but was tought that God represented love and peace and to kill for any reason was a sin!There is a lot of conflict in the world today but it can not be justified by saying it is Gods will.
The killing of person and the blame belongs to that person who kills and not God!
Yes - but you mustn't forget that the Christian God (sounds as if that was what you were taught) is not Allah or Jehova or....any of the others, so you can't really apply a blanket answer. Perspectives are different.
Islam specifically has a strong belief in predestination or er Godswill
IN one accident when 1000 pilgrims were crushed to death in a crush in Mecca the King of Saudi went on tel and said
they would have died at that instant anway ..... it was Gods will
My own feeling is that such strong predestination interferes with free will
and the other thing is that God must therefore know in advance who is to be saved and who is not ....and the actions of the person have nothing to do with it
which is not really what Christ taught - innit
I reckon if Steven Fry or anyone actually came before a genuine God they'd be so in awe and dumbstruck that they'd be hard put to say anything let alone remonstrate. I don’t believe he really knows himself well, but likes to think he is an ‘in Gods face’ type of guy.
Yes I WAS thinking of Calvin, predestination and double predestination as I wrote it
I think Muslims are stronger than Calvin on this one
Oh by the way can anyone tell me of the Calvinist sect which holds that the pre-elect will be identified on this Earth by God as to-be-saved by marks of grace from God such as success in industry and large cars ?
Try reading the Old testament. God himself keeps boasting about the thousands of people he has smitten. He has only to declare them an enemy of his chosen people, and then they are fair game. Tribe after tribe - massacred simply because they weren't the chosen ones, and they were in the way.
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