Nope, I think it is unreasonable. Also, when I was having my catholic indoctrination as a child, hell existed. Now, the church has changed their minds (possibly because threatening punishment fell out of fashion). Should I believe a church that keeps making new stuff up about their god?
I don’t agree with the death penalty where there are other options.
Does your all-powerful god lack such options? Or does he just dislike children who curse?
A, I have decided to stop this our little back-and-forth. I enjoy arguing with people who are being inquisitive, but you’re not. You’re just being argumentative. You’re willingly misunderstanding, misrepresenting, and misinterpreting what we’re saying, and what’s more, you’re doing it in a vitriolic manner. I’m not trying to convince you that Catholicism is true, I’m merely trying to explain to you where your conception of it is in error, and you’re smacking my hand to the side. This is not constructive, and frankly it’s a waste of both our time.
If such knowledge is possible. I have yet to see God reasonably proven to exist (the very effort smacks of hubris – God, you will appear!), and revelations seem to be granted to a select few.
Nor will you ever see such a proof. God’s existence is unprovable and it would be a demonic disaster if ever it were.
You’re ignoring the point. If God wants us all to know him, he can do that effortlessly. He doesn’t seem inclined to ensure that.
Well, ~90% of the world’s population believes in him (and ~50% is of the opinion that he’s the God of Abraham), so it doesn’t seem particularly necessary for him to somehow prove himself to us (though how would he do that, I wonder? A press release? Perhaps he’d start going door to door? Maybe he’d blow up the sun, shield us from the destruction, and then put in a new one that constantly played “Seinfeld” reruns).
Ignoring the fact that no matter what he did to prove himself to us, it would still be possible to doubt him, the title of the C.S. Lewis book “Till We Have Faces” sums up your answer quite nicely: “How can the gods see us face to face until we have faces?” In other words, the reason God stands in the darkness is not because he thinks it’s fun to hide behind the curtains, but because he’s right in front of us and we simply lack the eyes to see the light.
Then, of course, there’s the matter of free will, how standing in God’s presence makes it difficult for the choice to be as free as it should be, and all that.
Like I said ti A, I’m not trying to convince you of this, though I’d be fine with it if you were, because you can’t think yourself or anyone else into faith. I’m just trying to explain how Catholicism answers your questions. If nothing else, we’re 2,000 years old. You have to anticipate that whatever questions you may have have been asked a million times before, and there’s no way the RCC could become the richest non-profit organization in the world without being able to answer all of them in some sort of adequate capacity.
Ok, that’s pretty awesome. I’m gonna have to remember that when I die.
Maybe later tonight… we’ll see.
I almost want that to be my last word. Or maybe: