“Nevertheless, I am compelled to try, so here is a hint/clue. This mortal life is all a test and a trial to see who is worthy of eternal life.”
What kind of sadistic game is your God playing?
So let’s say you were God and you had the power to create your children and make them anyway you want. Among them you would also knowingly (because you’re all knowing) create imperfect, even evil children, and then let them loose and watch them muddle through life seeing what kind of dumb choices they make and the ones who make the least stupid choices you let them back into your garden forever, doing what I don’t know, while condemning the rest (also your children, who you knowingly created imperfect) to burn forever in hell.
So, would you as a parent enjoy such a sadistic game? And to what end?
Why not just create only well behaved kids (since it’s within your power) from the get go and let them live in your paradise forever and dispense with all the suffering?
What am I missing?
I wouldn’t agree with that poster either - so you’re right to have challenged his/her statement....... If it was about ‘testing’ to see who is worthy of eternal life we’d all fail.....and do. Only one man met perfection.
It’s no game. And the only sadism is coming from Satan.
You obviously have no belief in the spiritual realm (vs. the mortal one). If you did you would see things as they are, instead of as a mortal, flawed being....and ergo, as you want things to be.
Here’s a question for you. If you do not trust God or God’s word, or that of His son, Jesus, or that of the many prophets of God over the centuries....
whose word do you trust? There is only one other option (hint).