Is God Evil, or Just Stupid?
Forrest Valkai tells it how it is. #religion #faith #morality
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I usually hate insulting, but man, whoever made this video is so stupid
Its even dumber god created everything means everything so then he didn’t gave us free will
God knows all things but He gives us space to work out our salvation.
Well maybe, idiot, he gave us the ability to make choices; right or wrong. If we make the wrong one, we go to Hell.
He’s all those things
YES!
I have to disagree. We have free will and our sin separates us from God but by the Blood of Jesus Christ are we Justified. You don’t have to go to Hell. That’s your decision. Hell was designed for Satan and his followers not people. But people turned away from God and that’s why people end up in Hell. Also did you know that we have literal proof of the Bible. It has the most manuscripts ever. Also archeology proves it. And besides there has been to many things happen that I have ask God of that have come true. Also for anything to exist there has to be some sort of intelligent mind behind it. S
Also God gave us free will because he loves us. If God forced us to follow him that wouldn’t be love. That would strain the relationship. But since he lets us choose. Choosing him has been the best choice. Also I gave up on God for awhile but now that I turned back to him. I have had the best times of my life. I have been happier than ever. Hope you all have a good day.
God bless.
I’m so sick of Christianity. Sometimes I come and listen to people that say things like this because it’s true. And I’ve been fed a lot of BS with the bible and honestly many lies from a God that ‘cannot lie’
If God is omnipotent then he is everything. The epitome of good and evil, power and weakness–practically not existing, yet God’s existence exist everywhere by us, simply being aware of the existence of the universe. You’re a fragment of God.
I’m guessing this guys never been a father. You bring children into the world and do your best to teach them to make good decisions, it’s not his fault if they don’t.
God does not send you to hell
You sent yourself to hell
I’m the only Christain in this comment section I have ventured into the wasps nest but God’s shield will protect me from your stings of hatred.
““Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?”
Isaiah 45:9 NIV
BUT HE KNOWS THAT THERE WILL BE SOME PEOPLE WHO WILL PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM
As simple as this is, it’s unbelievable the amount of people who don’t get it. I really think ALL religious people are idiots.
You forgot one thing :FREE WILL.
God loved the world so much He gave His only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.
Parents are warned their unborn child has a disability. They know the struggles ahead, yet they choose life—and when that child is born and suffers, they still love and care for them.
We are all born in sin, broken from the start. So why wouldn’t God love us despite our flaws? He gave His Son to suffer and die—not for the good, but for the sinful—to save the world from its darkness.
Why can’t He know what will happen and still chose to love us?
Indeed, you are explaining Christianity. He knew people were going to sin, and decided to create them anyway, because the final product is apparently worth the struggle. I think all studied Christians and even good atheists will acknowledge this isn’t even half the story, and you are putting it much to plainly.
Not so fast
God did warn them about it, not with a subtle message, but a direct warning that God doesn’t want them to perish but disobedience will cost just that. And also, love and moral goodness require freedom, lack of free will would make us like robots, programmed to do one thing and can’t go against it’s code. Sin is the result of humans misusing their God given freedom to do wrong things, then, it’s not God’s doing. God can permit evil for the greater good, like growth, redemption, etc.
God values freedom and growth over programmed perfection.
..but, yeah, certain actions of God can cause unrest as they cannot be comprehensible for humans yet. İt’s lowkey just really hard sometimes, but i also know that humans aren’t in a position to fully judge the ways of God, who sees the entire cosmic picture, that’s like a toddler judging quantim physics, and that thought gives me hope. İf He is who He really says He is, then He knows what i don’t, and i can rest in that, and if i can, then that means so can you.
(İ wanna add this too, out of topic but, im genuinely mad at people who look at the humans suffering and use it as an excuse to deny God. instead of being genuinely heartfelt, they use it as a tool, surely this doesn’t bother me and me alone, just saying, don’t be one of them)
I say this God is good he is not stupid nor evil God gave us freewill and he loves you so much he doesn’t want full control of you he gave you freewill please I beg you all repent and believe in what Jesus Christ did God loves you
Instead of pointing fingers at God, maybe we should look in the mirror and acknowledge that human actions, driven by free will, are often the root of suffering – after all, God didn’t promise a life free from challenges, but humans have made some pretty questionable choices throughout history.
god gave us free will so we can enjoy life and the afterlife how we choose, if you sin then he wont interfere with that, but he’ll make you reap what you sow.
This smug atheist just explained why Christ ministered to us.
If God knew people would rebel… then why make them?
That’s the question, right?
But maybe love isn’t love without freedom.
Maybe the real question isn’t “Why did God create us knowing we’d fall?”
Maybe it’s “Why did He still choose the Cross, knowing we’d spit in His face?”
He didn’t come to stop every evil —
He came to endure it, so we’d have a way out.
He’s not afraid of your questions. Ask them.
But be ready — He might answer in a way that breaks your heart… and saves it.
Contact me if you need, just reply under the comments — let’s talk. And I am not a pastor – nor I claim to know all.
I am just a one searching for the truth.
Trying to add free will to an all knowing god is like giving a cookie to a toddler but then telling him not to eat it
Religious people say that you have free will. But they’re trying their hardest so that you will believe in something they believe because they don’t want you to go to hell.
That alone proves that if a god exists, that god is immoral. If he gave humans free will, he shouldn’t have made hell as punishment for those who don’t believe in him. That’s manipulation dressed as gospel.
Also, if a god created everything in perfect, why would someone like satan evolve? If a perfect human being loves us, he shouldn’t have created evil, or let evil evolve.
The truth is, if a god exists, he’s not perfect, he’s not omnipotent, and he’s evil. We all know that a god couldn’t possibly exist, it’s that the culture we grew in force us to believe in something that doesn’t make sense, and if we don’t believe what they believe, they will spend eternity in hell in pain, tormented and tortured
Atheists are the smartest people, according to atheists. Don’t believe me? Ask one. They’ll tell you all about it.
Yeah it a stupid conept man made to control stupid people
He gave us free will
Buddy im gonna hold your hand when I say this… god knows we will sin because he gave us free will that is his entire thing is that he gives us the will to do what we want I know you wouldn’t like it if he controlled our every move
Perhaps he isn’t all knowing?
Pla read the Bible before making these accusations
God=Nature+Soul+Mind (get a brain, loser)
It’s called giving us free will to do good but also be able to do evil….
instead of God being evil he is more like a "the joker"
I do not know why God created men knowing they could end up in hell. But it does not follow that God does not exist.
Yes, extremely evil, sadist, perverted, twisted.
And this world made of organic life is just an absolutely messed and shitty hell.
Well why did he make heaven? So we would have a choice, if he didn’t we all would go to hell he wants us to have free will,also your hearing this from a child,go read the Bible.
Atheists will never comprehend the concept of free will.
So y’all don’t know if u sin u go to hell and he’ll is fire darkness and death?
Evil. Not stupid. It knew exactly what it was doing. It is an evil creator.
Do you want people to love you because they want to or because they were forced to?
every chaos and every blood is part of fucking joker God plan
Life is a test to see your loyalty to god
You’re laboring under the delusion that all Christians are fanatics who harass atheists. Most of us are just trying to do what we need to to get through life, and couldn’t care less about what other people believe. You’re no better than the so called Christians who harass non-believers. No faith is better or more valid than anyone else’s. Faith is faith, not fact
I hope you turn to Christ I could explain why God does this but I’m not going to take my time trying to tell you something your not going to see I’ll be praying for you and all your followers
Evil stupid and intelligent
You have to start with the understanding that we are both flesh and spirit. Both dimensional and inter dimensional at the same time. Our bodies are 3rd dimensional vehicles for higher dimensional beings. If you want to live here and fuck, fight, take, hurt others and condemn like your doing in this video then that’s what will happen to you. Yes he did know we would fall, he did know Satan would rebel, he did know he would need to atone for our fallen state by sending his one and only Son (himself in a earthly body) to show us how to live and maneuver through fear. Here is what your missing God is Love….Satan is Fear. Love is behavior regardless of outcome and Fear is Acquisition of the world around us regardless of impact to fill the spiritual void with 3rd dimensional material and it’s lie. You cannot handle a spiritual issue with material. Now….we are being purified proven faithful in Christ so that our alignment can Change from fear and material acquisition to Love and behavior regardless of impact. We are in a cocoon called reality and when we leave will be in our final form. It’s what we do in this process that determines our form when we emerge. What is your definition of Evil btw?