A religous thread, topic; Heaven

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Originally posted by GT40FIED
That's one thing that always got me. If god did indeed make us, why leave all of this stuff around to give some of us reason to doubt? If it's a test, fuck that. If he REALLY wanted us by his side in an afterlife, don't you think he would've created our minds in such a way that we'd refuse any "false temptations"? Remember...some people don't have absolute faith. Questions will, and I think need to be, asked.

You should know that God DIDN'T intend it to be the way it is now. In the beginning, as it states in Genesis, the world was perfect, as it will be in heaven, without sin, sickness, or any of the other evils that are so prevalent in this world. Because God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit, and they did it anyway, he sent a curse onto mankind as punishment for disobeying him. Now, you might be asking why he put those trees there in the first place. Good point. The reason is, though, that God doesn't want robots who follow Him. Which is more gratifying, someone who bakes you a birthday cake because you tell them to, or because they do it out of love and kindness? God had and has the power to make a people who know nothing other than obeying and worshipping Him, but that's certainly not what he wants.