One of the things I never understood (and it's one thing out of
a really really really long list) is that if God did exist, and he
loved me, and he wanted me to be saved, He would know why I believe
His existence to be impossible. He would know what it would take so
that I would believe.
Perhaps just as He hardened Pharaoh's heart, He has hardened
mine.
I disagree with Ravi Zacharias who claims that hell is not the
choice of God; that it is the choice of man who wants to reject
God. If God indeed exists, how can it not be His choice when He has
made us who we are?
But let's say for the sake of argument God did exist and He was our
creator. Let us agree that he is all powerful and all knowing. But
he cannot be all good.
This is the God who makes the child pay for the sins of his father.
This is the jealous God of Abraham and Moses. This is the God that
teases us with salvation, yet unfairly saves some, and condemns
others. This is the God that accepts eternal torment as punishment
for our deeds in this brief earthly life.
This is a terrible God. If he did exists, how could I love him?
Fear him perhaps but not love him.
