A sociopath can receive God's gift of Salvation just like anyone else can. He's a sinner like all the rest although a very cruel and sadistic one. Also he knows right from wrong, sociopaths realize that they're actions are harmful they just don't give a shit and hurt people for fun and for their own personal gain anyway. As for homosexuality my beliefs are strictly Biblical in regards to that and I don't really care if science says it's natural. Romans 1:26-27 There's lots of things that are natural in science that are deemed bad through the Bible. I prefer not to get into these topics because they're deeply personal. Homosexuality is for you and sociopathy is for me. I just thought I'd give you the Biblical viewpoint.
There is proof of God's gift of Salvation. It's the Word of God, the prophecies and the miracles themselves all recorded and documented in the Book itself. If you don't see this as proof that's fine. But blind faith isn't faith, it's delusion. Faith is believing in something you haven't seen because you've seen proof of something more. You ask why Salvation can't take place after death. I ask, why must it? What are you waiting for? You have this life. Why count on having a second one and not count on the fact that God's giving you a chance for a second one?
Seeing similarities between God and a thug or bully just because he requires you to believe in Him is ridiculous. If you weren't blaspheming him before then you are now. Faith is a deeply spiritual concept. I can only assume that God requires us to have faith for His own spiritual reasons. I can almost guarantee He has a reason for it though. He's not going to make people jump through "flaming hoops" as you put it for fun.
As for the reason God allows for pain, death, disease, famine, etc. He didn't create the world like this. Man did in the Garden of Eden. We live in an imperfect world because of sin. God didn't create the world to be full of evil things originally. It wasn't in his Plan.
As for the rest of your post it sounds to me like you despise the church and Christians more than the belief and God himself. Christians are evil screwed up sinners and the church has been destroyed because of them. I'm not going to disagree with you, it sucks and it goes against God's Plan.
Try to type in paragraphs. I can't get to all your information because it's just one long train of thought. I need more order to get to everything.
Lol...firstly, I’m not gay, my older brother is...but I don’t feel God will punish my brother for it in any instance. I do believe in God, but I do not believe that the Bible has remained untainted by, as you said “evil screwed up sinners” who omitted parts that belonged there, inserted parts that didn’t, and changed things to fit their needs and desires. This has been proven again and again but is often ignored by most Christians because admitting to even one thing being changed or omitted etc. in the Bible can open a Pandora’s box of errors. So instead they walk around and look silly...I guess that is their choice.
There are very few things in the Bible, especially the miracles, that have any historical proof whatsoever...yes, I do believe Jesus was alive, and preached, and was crucified...but other than that I cannot say for sure.
Why did all these “miracles” take place in biblical times and somehow as our records go better and better historically the miracles seemed to drop-off and are now all but existent? You don’t think that some of the famous “miracles” were perhaps stories, parables to make a point? That perhaps the miracles of such parables became attributed to certain people because it gave them more weight. Why don’t we still have prophets in modern days? Those who God speaks directly to...I’m not talking about a warm and fuzzy feeling after praying....or the coincidental butterfly flitting by that we interpret by a stretch as a “message”. I mean someone whom God says “Hello Bob.” and Bob says “Hey there God! How was your golf game yesterday?”
Why not? Did God give up trying to give us rules and direction? To show us his existence through miracles that used to be preformed by the prophets...did he just get bored with humanity...if he isn’t apathetic to humanity and he isn’t an absent God....if he helps us, then where are the grand performances that he used to conduct?
We should have faith? He should help humanity have faith.
I have to have more than a book that has been altered over thousands of years to have faith....you say blind faith isn’t faith - it’s delusion...well, I’m not deluded....my own mind doesn’t allow me to just have baseless faith. I am too logically and scientifically thinking to do that. It would be nice...but no matter how I try to have faith in such things, it isn’t there. I always question...I cannot stop questioning....and they way I see things it’s okay to do that. To question is to doubt, even Jesus had his moment of doubt in the Garden before being crucified, and again while on the cross. If Jesus can doubt then why can we not question and doubt ourselves?
You see, I know in my heart (as does God) what I have thought, questioned, and felt...and I have no doubt that my faith, or lack thereof, is through no fault of my own.
I still don’t get the reasoning of the Garden of Eden...it is a nonsensical story with no moral, no purpose. God make Adam from clay, makes Eve from his rib, puts them into paradise and tells them to do whatever except not to eat the fruit of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil (which he created, which would imply he also created evil), then a “serpent” whom he also created comes and tempts Eve, who eats the apple...would have gained the knowledge, but yet still gives it to Adam...and so as a result of them “sinning” even though he dangled the tree in their faces, he punishes them and all of humanity from then of with being ashamed and cast out of paradise.
If God didn’t create the world to be full of evil things then you are either saying that he failed...or that he is not the loving God he is said to be, by punishing ALL of humanity for the sins of the Father.
A true sociopath understands right from wrong only because they have been taught the rules of society...they lack a sense of moral responsibility or social conscious.
What to say of someone who is beyond that, who is truly mentally ill? Someone who cannot grasp religion...or someone who is too fucked in the head to make moral decisions?
As for waiting to “find my salvation” don’t think that I am not trying...but like I said before...my mind doesn’t seem to want to let me “let go” and just have faith....I DO believe in a afterlife...I DO believe in God...but even those are constant battles for me. I’m not just having this discussion to be blasphemous, or to irritate you, or to try and get the upper hand...these are questions I am always trying to find honest, logical, sensible answers to.
