Sorry for answering so late, but I really hate my bio lab
So how is your relationship with your god and goddess going then? If you ask me, from what I've seen, these religions may have a deity or deities of some kind, but for the most part, they are unknowable and unreachable... you may KNOW ABOUT your supreme being, but do you PERSONALLY know him/her? The Hindus have many gods and goddesses... but many does not always equal good. Do they personally know them? They believe in Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer (their own trinity) but they have never went down to earth to tell their people that they love them and they want to have a personal relationship with them. Wouldn't having a relationship with their millions of gods (and counting) be just ridiculous? The very nature of God calls for an absolute. And then we have Islam... where we read about Allah giving these ridiculous commands and to slay the infidels and whatnot, but there's this one illiterate prophet Muhammad telling them from behind the curtains, saying he got his inspiration from Gabriel the angel. I would listen to God directly rather than have a man tell me his own experiences in a cave being taught questionable political power hungry plans to take over the world in the name of religion... all instructed from the man behind the curtains. Funny thing is, half these Muslims usually don't know what they're uttering in Arabic when they pray to Allah. And these people have a relationship with God? My God loves to hear the prayers of His people and answers them in His time. His plans are perfect and true, and did something 2000 years ago to prove that He indeed did care for us, which I'll get to in a second... so let me ask you again... do they really know their supreme being? Do(es) t(he)y respond back?
I see where you are confused... but of course, God did not create robots. You as well as I both know that we are not righteous. NONE of us (Romans 3:10). Everyone deserves hell... we are flawed, corrupt, rude, unloving, selfish... and that's not even half of what we are. We are just screwed up... very hypocritical. It's our fault that we're all going to hell... and we can't save ourselves from it even if we tried to by ourselves. We are ALL responsible for our sins... and EVERY sin we commit will kick back on us eventually. You thought you got away with it? Heh heh... I'm afraid not. Even Hinduism has a similar concept with karma... we all know this innately.
Fortunately for us, God has made a way for everyone to have the potential to be saved. Yes, God has sent His only begotten Son, so that ALL may be saved for those who believe in Him. That's right, ANYONE can be saved... but that's only if they simply believe. But being a Christian means you will be hated by this world... because you follow Jesus. Trust me, I KNOW how it's like. So you have committed terrible crimes and wish to be pardoned... and when you're being offered a lawyer to pardon you... and you refuse... what good is that? God is a just God... so He has NO OTHER CHOICE BUT to send you to hell. I deserve hell. You deserve hell. We all deserve it. You are being sent to hell because of YOUR own sins and YOUR own refusal of salvation. Salvation is by grace alone... and God offered you a way... it's not too late yet! God has no favorites... just because you did all these good deeds... or even if you went to church... or read the Bible, it's not going to matter. You are STILL responsible for your sins. You can ONLY be allowed into heaven if you accept God's precious gift to this world: Jesus Christ. For the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23)... and hey, we all sinned, right? Hell could not contain Jesus because He was sinless and perfect. God coming down as a human to die for OUR sins was His greatest love act of all... He took the pain and suffering WE DESERVE... just to save His precious creations. And yet... all we need to do is believe... but why can't people see that? It breaks my heart to no end.
I will share with you about the deception of Lucifer after... it's going to be a LONG topic, but he is the reason why we're all in this mess. Remind me to tell you about Lucifer... because I want to write an article about that in my upcoming website. He fell from heaven (Isaiah 14:12) just because of his pride... he wanted to be LIKE the most high... and unfortunately, he is now the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). The true God of this world is Jesus, and he will return. Satan's pride has led him to his downfall even when he was the most precious cherub of God (Ezekiel 28:11-19). His pride is what let to his downfall... and he subtly tried to pass on that sin to Eve when he whispered to Eve "Ye shall be like gods" when she eats the fruit (Genesis 3:5). Lucifer... the rebel. He really wasn't lying there... but he did twist the truth. You will be like god if you eat... you will KNOW good and evil. God KNOWS good and evil, HE KNOWS EVERYTHING... but what differentiates us with God is that we can't make the same decisions God makes. God makes all the right decisions for He is absolute. We, however, know what's right and wrong, but we always choose the wrong path because we can't always make the right choice. We are sinners by default... so of course we make the wrong decisions. But if you trust in God and ask Him for His advice, He will try to get you to the right path. All you need to do is listen. We will always fall short, guaranteed, but it's better than consciously making your life a mess. We have a free will, yes, and we can alter our choices and whatnot. But trying to alter the consequences is a big no-no; you NEVER go up there. Ever.
My God is of unconditional love (Agape)... or else He isn't God. Remember God must be absolute to be God... or else He isn't God. To be good, He must be ALL good. One little bit of bad goes on Him, then He is not good, and therefore isn't God. He must always tell truth, for if truth is tainted with a SMALL lie, it becomes a lie in itself. The nature of good and truth must be absolute... and if God does not follow any of those criteria, He is NOT God. However, my God has never failed... and never will. He is God... He is the absolute and for being all good, He must therefore love all good and hate all evil. The difference between us fallible humans and God is this: He loves good as much as He hates evil, while we love good and endorse evil at the same time. We cannot hate evil as much as God ever will... therefore we are subject to commit sins and will remain fallible: we are NOT gods.
Exactly how I feel... and the fact modern Bibles omit the MOST IMPORTANT part of the baptism part or cast doubt on it (see if Acts 8:37 is in your Bible or not) makes me wonder if this apostate age will ever get it right :-/
We live in the Laodicean Church times... it's going to be over soon.
And Zafur, since this topic is about creationism vs evolution, I will get to you later. I just can't seem to answer things all the time right now. I have to take a break from all this... I've been debating with people regarding these topics for so long... X_X
And yikes! Look at the time! I must head to my laboratory... I'll see you all later! @_@