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HOW GOD BELIEF MEANS YOU VIRTUALLY FORGIVE WITH GOD - BUT WHO ARE YOU TO FORGIVE WHAT SOME MONSTER DID TO SOME CHILD YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW OR CAN CARE ABOUT AS MUCH AS YOUR OWN?
God by definition is the fulfilment of your existence
and gives meaning to you, to your whole being, which follows from his creating
you out of love.
God forgives all who repent according to Christianity
but the caveat that you offer Jesus in your place. He is the one who does the
good for God that we failed to do. This is the atonement. This bigoted doctrine
implies that anybody who sees no need for an atoner is not forgiven even if they
think they are.
If God forgives, then you have to forgive in a sense
with him. You agree with what he does and would do the same yourself. You unite
your will to his. As you have to become one in love with God, you need to unite
your heart with his. You would do what God does if you were God. So you
indirectly forgive those whom he forgives. You are a forgiver with God in the
sense that Hitler and so on must be pardoned by him if they repent. You then as
much as God are involved in mercy to evil people.
Indirect does not mean your part is in any way inferior
or less involved. In this case it means you are as involved. So you are
forgiving what was done to innocent people. But you are not the one hurt so you
cannot really know exactly what you are saying is forgiven and does not matter
any more. It's too easy to give mercy when you are not the victim. It’s a lack
of empathy. Are you using God to make yourself feel better for real empathy is
painful? You certainly are!
Forgiveness means knowing what you are forgiving but you
cannot for you are not the victim. You have a rough idea but their suffering
deserves more respect than you imposing your assumptions on it for they cannot
really touch on the horror and degradation involved. There is no comparison
between what you have to forgive no matter how terrible it is and what happens
to the billions of people alive now and who have ever lived and who will ever
lived. Grow up.
This is damning. God belief on humanist grounds is unworthy of respect.
Worse, God is said to help you unite your core and his,
your spirit and his by grace. Grace is God’s power to correct us when we cannot
do it ourselves. He is then called a party to your self-deception about your
noble and forgiving outlook. If you pray for grace for others you are going too
far. If others pray for grace for you they are going too far.
The doctrine of a loving God who is our meaning in life is decisively disproved. The doctrine of an evil creator is not but I would not call it God.
Don’t use the suffering of others that you will never experience or fully
understand to build a faith for yourself on it.
Patrick H Gormley