I don’t know what experience Solzhenitsyn had when he wrote his books. I, however, was born into a family of inhumane people, call them psychopaths or sociopaths or malignant narcissists, it doesn’t make any difference. I survived them. Then unknowingly I married a psychopath, who finally, after 24 years of marriage admitted who he was. And he told me about how “his people”, meaning other inhumane people operate. Well of course I wasn’t going to keep this information to myself, which has earned me the name of “the loose-tongued bitch”. And for the last 20+ years there is a war waged against me by inhumane people, to “make me go away permanently” to put it in their jargon. And they have caused me a great deal of harm but I have, by God’s Grace, managed to survive and continue my efforts to expose them. So I do have some experiences up close and personal.
Wow. I’m sorry to hear of anyone having to go through such a long travail - it sounds miraculous that you have survived even as you have. A life of war will shape and color anyone’s perceptions for sure. Of that I have no doubt.
@Ani99, I agree and echo that. I am sincerely sorry for your experience.
But you know every dark cloud has a silver lining. The experiences have taught me plenty that I couldn’t have learnt in any other way. So I have been able to help others and that make me very happy.
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Tell God - I’m sure he’s take notice of your opinion … assuming you believe in God.
Furthermore, many atheists want nothing to do with God, so by eternally removing them from his presence,God is simply giving them what they want. Pray tell, how is that “unjust, inadequate, nasty and illogical”?
Justifying the God of an ancient text is easy isn’t it? But seeing God as He is, through eternal, infinite creation first, takes a change of perspective. From the heart.
This is in the New Testament:
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
That ancient text is the one that Jesus used to rebuke Satan in the wilderness with. Its that text that foretells of His coming. Its that text that He obeyed. Its that text that condemns the whole world of their sins and its that text that points to the Lamb of God for the salvation from sin and condemnation for all who put the whole confidence in Jesus. Those who dont will be outside the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus’s death and our death does not place us in a default position of safety from condemnation. It is through repentance from sin and self and placing our trust in Jesus’s death and resurection that will deliver us from sin and wrath. If you dont trust that text, you dont trust in the Almighty or His Son.
Love one another.
Please explain why you say that.
Is God not just? If not, we’re all in big trouble!
How are any of us not in trouble if He is by Biblicism? Apart from the witless elect of course?
Election isn’t so witless when you understand that God is omnitemporal. (Election, like pre-destination, is a time-based word, as is all of our language.)
I understand that there is only one here and now for each frame of reference. No other understanding is meaningful.
From man’s limited and immediate perspective, yes, but not in the long haul.
Man is irrelevant to that fact.
Not when we are talking about Jesus’ motivation.
We’re not. And it makes no difference. The relativity of simultaneity applies in an A-theory of time cosmos.
We are. It has to do with election and adoption.
A or B, neither really deal with the reality God’s omnitemporality.