Do you believe; and why?

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(05-14-2019, 03:32 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: God sends people to hell who are willfully disobedient. The fact that God created eternal damnation doesn't make him bad, at least not to me because the eternal damnation is not what he desires. He created an equally better counter part to it which he wants us to go to. The fact that people choose eternal damnation is on them. 

What makes God good to me isn't what he created or allows to happen to us, but what it is he actually desires for us.

If God was good he would not demand that we worship him or face eternal damnation.

If he was good he would ask us to worship him, but he would not punish us with eternal torment if we don't.

If I wanted a woman to tell me she loved me I would ask her to.  If I had to point a gun at her face to make her do it I would not really feel that good about her saying she loved me.  The fact that I give her the choice to say she loves me or get shot in the face would not make me a good person.