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"Bart Goddard" wrote in message
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> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
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> > I take all the word of God as comfort. For I believe in the God
> > who says that HE IS LOVE. I do not believe in a God who
> > has created the vast majority of His human creatures to be
> > damned, without a free will to receive His salvation.
>
> I note here the internal contradiction of your view.

It is not a contradiction.

> You
> can't believe in a God who would damn His own creatures,

I didn't say this. The God I believe in is the God who says:

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.

AND
Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no
pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way
and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house
of Israel?

> yet you insist that He gave them free will so that they
> have the tool to get damned.

Without free will no one can love God freely.
Your God FORCES you to love Him.
BUT He also FORCES many many many many MORE to HATE Him.
Thus your God is THE GOD OF HATE.

> You call this a "God of love", but He doesn't display
> even the love a human parent towards His children.

We have gone over this before, I think.

> If
> my kids were in mortal danger, I sure wouldn't leave
> their safety up in the air by refusing to help them
> until they asked for it, or showed some sign that they
> wanted help from me, or showed some sign that they
> trusted my judgement.

Well, your not God, thank goodness. :)

The flaw in your story is that YOU are the one who put
your children into mortal danger. Next, you pick a few
to save from this mortal danger YOU PUT THEM INTO,
but most of them you let die from the mortal danger
YOU PUT THEM INTO.

This is the parallel picture to your God.

So get over trying to convince anyone who has a brain that
the God you picture is loving at all.

> I'm not waiting around for their
> exercise of free will and some sort of reaching out to
> me. I'm just going to save them.

Yes, you had 10,000 children. You picked 2 to save.
The rest you put into the mortal danger, and refused
to help them at all! In fact you purposely kept any
help from them, since you are so powerful. And then
not only do they die because of where you put them,
you torture them eternally for falling into the mortal
danger you threw them into! What a wonderful