Quote Originally Posted by truthpaste View Post
Ok, at last you are engaging the issue head on.

Yes the God that you propose could stop whatever He chose to, however God has many attributes, and He cannot switch them on and off just to accommodate us. That's called making a god in our image (or to our requirements).

Let's just look at 2 of his attributes. God is Love, He is also Just.

So God is love he wants to connect with us, however as you know from your dealings with people, love MUST include choice, including the choice to walk away and reject someone. If God had programmed us to simply obey his every whim, that would not be love, that would just make us drones.

Mankind made his choice and rebelled against God - God warned man of the consequences (death, disease, disaster) yet like most people on this board, man decided he knew better and went his own way. Now man is unhappy with the result of his choice; and ALSO rejects God's rescue plan found in the person of Jesus, deciding just to have 'Jesus' as his favourite swear word instead!

Romans 6:23 - "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"
But I didn't suggest that God is all powerful and always around ......believers did

What you are doing is letting God off for not saving children with Cancer

Surely if he's what it says in your holy book .......and what the clergy tell us ......all powerful and omni present .....then either he's not doing what his followers claim he can and that's mean .......or he doesn't exist in the first place