[RipSawyer]

We have a concept of God to put a name on that which we can never fully understand. We have a concept of God because some human beings show the greatest respect and love toward their neighbors while some treat others with the contempt we would expect from the demonically influenced.
Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who for the most part attribute human emotions and failings to God, I can offer no proof of the existence of God which would satisfy the scientific method and even less am I able to offer proof of the nonexistence of God. The only solution which works for my limited thinking ability is that there is a higher power than man which is in charge of all that is seen or unseen but that proves only my limited ability.
I do draw a line at believing in a God who consigns his creations to an eternity of suffering and I do so beause I myself could not find it within me to condemn the worst who ever lived to an ETERNITY of incredible suffering and I cannot believe that I am more merciful than my creator. Spare me your explanations of how we choose our own eternity of suffering by our actions, I have heard it from the best and the worst, I was baptized into a Southern Baptist church at the age of thirteen and I don't believe it.
Peace and love.

[DannyTN]

"I do draw a line at believing in a God who consigns his creations to an eternity of suffering and I do so beause I myself could not find it within me to condemn the worst who ever lived to an ETERNITY of incredible suffering and I cannot believe that I am more merciful than my creator. "

"I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful."

Have you given your son to pay for the sins of the world? No. Then you are not more merciful than your Creator.

No, you would simply break the law set forth in the beginning that the penalty for sin is death. Your "mercy" comes at the cost of "truth" and "justice".

Merciful to whom? The worst that ever lived? Or the occupants of Heaven. Should the unrepentant be freed to live in Heaven?