God does not love you?

Let's assume, for a moment, that there is a God. We may not know the nature of God, or


which religion comes closest to the truth, but we can be sure of one thing:





God does not love you.





Look at all the cruelty and misery in the world, which God does nothing to stop. Right now,


as you are reading this, there are children in various places around the world being raped


and tortured. Most of us would risk our lives, give up our lives, to save them if we could.


God stands by and does nothing. God has abandoned these children, and clearly does not


love them. God does not love you, either.





There are some religions which claim that "God's love is a different kind of love", which is


supposed to explain and justify what appears to be God's divine indifference. This is total


bullshit. If I claim that I love my neighbor, and then set his house on fire and shoot him in


the head, anyone can see that my "love" is not love at all.





Another fallacy along these lines is the statement that, "God doesn't give us more than we


can handle in life". This is a ridiculous statement. Go to a mental institution, go to the ward


for those who are seriously disturbed, and you'll see people who just sit and rock back and


forth all day, staring off into space, or screaming at nonexistant terrors. God has given


them more than they could handle, and now they're totally broken.





So you have no loving God watching over you, making sure you get what you need. You


don't get what you need in life, you don't get what you want, you don't get what you


deserve. You get what you get.

God does not love you?
Okay, well lets look at this from a purely selfish humanistic point of view.





People who believe in G-d have stronger marriages.


http://www.heritage.org/Research/Religio...





Live longer healthier lives:


“Several new studies find the religiosity-longevity correlation among men alone, and even more strongly among women. 8 One study that followed 5,286 Californians over twenty-eight years found frequent religious attendees 36 percent less likely to have died in any year after controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, and education. Another followed 3,968 elderly North Carolinians for six years. It found that 23 percent of those attending religious services at least weekly had died, as had 37 percent of infrequent attendees.9 A "National Health Interview Survey" followed 21, 204 people over eight years. After controlling for age, sex, race, and region, nonattendees were 1.87 times more likely to have died than were those attending more than weekly.10 This translated into a life expectancy at age twenty of eighty-three years for frequent attendees and seventy-five years for infrequent attendees.”





Religious attendance and life expectancy: In a national health survey financed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, religiously active people had longer life expectancies.





And are happier and generally better able to cope with significant life events:


http://www.allfreeessays.net/student/Do_...





Finally and most importantly when you consider the horror that you feel rightly this world has become. Christians and Jewish believers are responsible for the majority of philanthropy and active relief of the ills that plague the world. Note: 80/1 in volunteerism, charitable giving, and pure lives work compared to secular humanists and the non-religious.





If you are an intelligent human being who listens to rational intelligent information from leading scholars and scientists, then I am afraid you would have to conclude that faith in G-d and a relationship with Him is in you very best interest.





If all else...even if there is no G-d...What have you got to lose. Living a long, healthy, happy, righteous life and well then you die and surprise...no afterlife...no creator...no G-d.





But you have had a long, healthy, happy life so no harm done right?





On the other hand: live like there is no G-d. And then what if you are wrong...and eternity of hell?





Seems to me that just from this argument alone the smarter more reasonable man would opt for the former choice. Oh and He does love you! Just like a good parent who gives their child the rules to live a good life yet cannot, and indeed will not deny their grown child’s right to make the wrong choices. Choices, and the right to make them is the most valid proof of G-ds love.





Shalom
Reply:not true he does love you duh thats why he made you read the bible Report It

Reply:That is one gloomy depressing way of looking at things.





Luckily it is not the only way.





Love and blessings Don
Reply:I have everything I need and thankinfully I am not getting what I deserve.
Reply:God has left us in charge of this earth. I still stand behind if every, every, every single head bowed in prayer to Jesus, ALL sickness, evils, transgressions, hates, wars, ALL would go away. That is how He has left us in charge with the knowledge that this is all we need do, but many many too many do not and will not see this. It is a very sad world, but whose fault is it? Not God's. And yes, I do have everything I need, want and deserve. I love Him with all my heart and soul and to Him goes the glory for everything in my life. All you need do is ask. Tells you how...well, you know where.
Reply:Now THAT sounds more like a God that I could actually admire. Largely indifferent, like Crom. Not this "He'll punish you if you don't accept his love" egomaniac Jehovah.
Reply:Justin, I have read many of your questions, I believe I am viewing a great intellect. I would hope as time goes by you will find a way to use that intellect for the benefit of mankind.


Just an observation I hope you will consider. You are very cynical in you observations. This may be due to the fact that you are still young. I would hope that as time goes by you will develop a more optimistic view.


Remember the truly intelligent person find solutions to problems, they observe.


As for this question. I would suggest that no matter how great my love is for my child, if they refuse to follow my instructions, then by the "free will", they will have to suffer the consequences, and deal with the reality they have created.
Reply:If there "is" a god, I believe he started this earth, and then left us to our own devises.
Reply:their are tons of people who disagree with you..their are some who don't...keep opinions like these to yourself...i know that everyone is entiled to whatever....but some people just dont want to here it..people dont believe in god..people do...it's all up to them...don't really have anymore to say..i would just type everything that im thinking of..but it would be to confusing..lol..hope you are well..
Reply:All right,we get it. You are only familiar with one religion and you dislike it. Thank you.
Reply:Maybe the whole point is to see what we actually in regard to such cruelties you mention.





And we can actually help those people who are in need if we really wanted to, but in reality we are too selfish to do so. There are people who give their time though. So not everyone is selfish, but we do tend to look after ourselves first.





Telling the world about the bad things that happen is something completely different than literally getting out and trying to change the world.





If you don't believe there is a God, much less one that loves us, that's your roll.
Reply:You are right on the money but God worshipers will always look the other way when it comes to these horrors(turn the other cheek ,so to say). When surviving something horrendous they always say it was "a miracle" and all I can think of is it would of been a miracle if whatever happened would have been prevented in the first place. Talk about lost souls. These people act like they can't even think for themselves sometimes.
Reply:Justin you are too cynical for a 16 year old.





I hope that you find a higher purpose in your life!


It would save you from a life of bitterness and anguish.
Reply:God does love us. Yes He allows these things to happen and we may not fully understand it all. These people will be punished. God doesn't allow things to happen and go unpunished. We may not see their punishment now but they will be punished. God created this world to be perfect and Satan deceived man and now we are having to live in it. In the end God will win. I don't fully understand why bad things happen to good people but it does. The bible says that the rain will fall on the just and the unjust and the sun will shine on the just and the unjust. God is in control. His will will be done.





Jesus suffered more than anybody. He was beaten, mocked, criticized and He done it all for us. God doesn't put more on us than we can handle. Sometimes it may seem like it but we always get through it. We will endure hard times on this earth, but if we know Jesus as our Lord and Savior than one day it will all be worth it.
Reply:BRAVO!!!someone finally got it...
Reply:obviously these are signs of judgment day. I mean looks at the holy scriptures.
Reply:How do you want us to answer this statement? We don't love you? we won't pray for you? we won't wish you to know the word of God? I'm sorry you believe these things. The cruelty and hatred in this world is created and born along by people who want to take God and His love out of this world.