brotherdan Stephen, I apologize for my post. I can now see that it was just a bait for all the angry atheists to post their rage and not use biblical reasoning to come to a conclusion.
I was looking for CHRISTIAN reasonings. Not atheistic reasoning based on faulty human thinking. Go ahead and quote that sentence, I won't respond.
No stress Dan, it's cool :)
One needs to put the "for Christians" caveat in the thread title on this board unless you want a barrage of hate mail.
I have found some topics are not up for discussion, certainly certainly not in the way we want to discuss them. I questioned my Heavenly Father for too long on a particular topic and the feeling I had was to lay the issue aside which I did. I do not expect my children to question my wisdom and judgement so why should I act any differently?
Isaiah 45:9-12 (New International Version)
9 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker,
to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
'What are you making?'
Does your work say,
'He has no hands'?
10 Woe to him who says to his father,
'What have you begotten?'
or to his mother,
'What have you brought to birth?'
11 "This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?
12 It is I who made the earth
and created mankind upon it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.
At the end of the day God is love but He is also holy and just.
Let anyone who wants to argue to the nth degree over that statement take it up with Him at the appointed time.
Blessing in Christ,
Stephen