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Gorgias
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So, wanting to create us so that we had a chance to choose Him freely, but knowing that we’d mess it up, He does it anyway… but with a “second chance” option that we can go to, again and again, so that we keep getting more chances to say “yes”. That doesn’t make sense as something a loving Father would do?It just doesn’t make sense. It all sounds like your God set all this up, knew about the nature of humans and continued to proceed with it anyway regardless.
You’re right – looking at it that way doesn’t make any sense! I suspect you’re getting this “angry God” notion from Protestant theology, because this isn’t what the Catholic Church teaches. God doesn’t get “angry” with humans (or with Jesus!). He asks us to accept Him in love, and when we don’t, He sends His son, and His son gives up his life for us – out of love! – so that we might continue to have the choice to love Him.As if he wanted to get angry and “save” humans, which doesn’t make any sense.
“Angry Creator” isn’t what the Catholic Church teaches.
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Not seeing what’s “not attractive”. Knowing that we’d be bums, God has the choice to create us anyway, or just chuck the idea and leave us all uncreated. He creates us. We mess up, again and again, and He keeps giving us chance after chance. Ultimately, He sends His son, so that we’d always have “still another chance”.Not a very attractive being to want to worship!
How’s that not “attractive” for a deity? He literally never consigns us to the trash heap, and always gives us another chance to say ‘yes’ to Him!)
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