1/3/2009.
Suppose there was this Christian girl that was Christian her whole life, until 1 day, she was courted by a confident atheist guy. He did all the eye contact sincerity, all that - more than any balls that Christian men could have courted. Of course, her whole church were not cool with her dating an atheist guy or having an atheist boyfriend.
She couldn't convert him and so later she became an atheist herself, for the rest of her life.
Anyways, so by the time she died as an atheist, does she go to Hell?
If the answer is yes, then that could be evidence that God is not a loving God.
If the answer is no, then there would be no need for bigotry.
1/25/2010
The following is about God of the Bible or Qur'an.
Is God a loving God? There's a wonderful story about an atheist that was upset at the loving-ness of God of the Bible. That atheist was determined to be more moral than the Biblical God. He was determined to prove God was not a loving God - by making the ultimate sacrifice.
So he spent his whole life trying to be good to his fellow men, trying to make as many friends as possible. Trying to be there for people. You could even say, he was a gentleman to the ladies. By the time he was old, he had already donated to a lot of charities.
But, when he died, because he was an atheist (so because he did not accept Christ), he was then sent to Hell. The people of Heaven then revolted against God, angering why should a guy like him be sent to Hell? Simply because he did not accept Christ? Surely an omniscient entity like God would have foresaw this to have happened!
Anyways, this story is rejected by both atheists and Christians. It is rejected by atheists because atheists don't believe in God. It is rejected by Christians for a variety of reasons. 1st off, this is regarding the Christians that do believe the saved go to Heaven, even though there are no scriptural evidence.
For the Christians I'm talking about, they believe that when you go to Heaven, God wipes away the memory of the loves ones that ended up not being saved.
So that itself is another concept to add to God's "loving" character.
1 of the questions I asked Christians was - "What if a Christian mother gave birth to an atheist, and the atheist was sent to Hell. If she were in Heaven, how could she be happy that her son was burning in Hell?" Or even "Is she happy in Heaven if...?"
And so the Christians replied that God wipes away the memory of those that you knew on Earth that ended up in Hell. But they did not paste to me Bible verses that said that. They basically pasted to me that people in Heaven are content in Heaven, and then used their own logic and reason (or testimony) that led to this conclusion.
Of course, you can come up with all sorts of other conclusions, such as, maybe God forces you to not give a damn about those that went to Hell. No contradiction to that Bible verse.
Anyways, for the record, the Bible implies that when you die, and you are saved, you simply become part of God's memory. So no Heaven. God resides in Heaven, so God's memory resides in Heaven!
So the argument that the Christian uses isn't "Do you want to go to Heaven or do you want to go to Hell," it's "Do you want to go to Hell, or do you not want to go to Hell."
This is what I mean when I say, "When I die, I exist in people's memory." Because if the Bible were true, or if atheism were true, neither of that would contradict my statement.