The Idiocy of Religious Irony.


God desires to save people....from what He is going to do with them if they don't repent.

God sets people free...to be bound by religion.

God fulfilled the Law through Jesus...so people could strive to keep the law to gain His acceptance.

God desires unity...yet He created religious denominations so His Body would be segregated.

God makes people sick...then people pray and say that it is His will for them to be healed.

God gives people His blessings freely...yet people merchandize His Gospel through manipulation.

God loves sinners....yet sentences them to everlasting punishment for not loving Him back.

God's love is unconditional...if you abide by His terms and conditions and the religious rules.

God causes natural disasters...then thanked by the survivors of the disaster.

God sends drought...then answers people's prayer for rain and receives praise from people for sending the rain.

God loves people so much...He created hell just in case people don't love Him back.

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  1. Hubert MoulandMay 19, 2014 at 3:21 AM

    Can I make a comment on some of these statements?

    God desires to save people. Why? John 3:16 states For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Here is the answer, so that men would not perish.


    God sets people free. From what? Some of things are:
    From Satan. (Luke 11:21,22)
    From sin. (Rom6:14)
    From condemination (Rom.8:1)
    From curse of law. We are free from law as a covenant but not as a rule. For instance if we go out there and break God`s moral law by shoplifting or killing and get caught we will pay the penality the same as everyone else.
    From death (Rom. 11:26)
    From wrath of God (Rom. 5:9)


    God desires unity but I like what the late Adrian Rogers said: “It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error and it is better to stand alone with the truth than to be wrong with a multitude.


    God makes people sick. God is not up there determining whom he will bless or curse. We determine that. God says in Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:


    God loves sinners....yet sentences them to everlasting punishment for not loving Him back. This is not the reason why sinners go to hell. C S Lewis tells us why?
    I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
    All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. And yourself, in a dark hour, may will [a grumbling] mood, embrace it. Ye can repent and come out of it again. But there may come a day when you can do that no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood…
    —excerpted from The Problem of Pain and The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), included in The Quotable Lewis, 1989 Tyndale

    The Bible says that God prepared hell for the devil and his demonic cohorts (Matthew 25:41), that He is "…not wishing for any [person] to perish but for all to come to repentance." (II Peter 3:9), and that He has done everything possible to save us from that terrible, terrible place. Yet in the end God will not violate or overrule the deliberate choice of those who consciously and willfully turn away from Him.
    —Daryl E. Witmer of AIIA Institute



    God's love is unconditional...if you abide by His terms and conditions and the religious rules. Actually God`s love is not unconditional. As far as God loving the whole world and dying for all mankind it is unconditional but not for us as Christians.

    God`s love for us as believers is conditional upon the fact that we love Him and keep His words.
    John 14:
    21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
    22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
    23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

    John 16:
    27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

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