How do you live in this world - filled with wars and chaos - with no hope of redemption or things getting better, and just thing “yep, this is all there is, life is good”. As Christians, we have assurance, certainty and comfort in that Jesus is coming back to judge the world, destroy all the wicked and bring us to eternal life. Atheists don’t have that. Even worse, some even prefer to insult this God. What’s keeping me grounded in this life is the knowledge that God dictates when my life ends- not me.

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Goodness cannot be experienced without evil to begin with. Good needs evil to exist. “A while” isn’t that significant really. Historians skim over lifetimes all the time. I really doubt Job - who if a real figure, died thousands of years ago, is still fretting over the 80 or so years where he had periods of suffering, now that he’s in the Glory.

    The “prophecy in revelation” you describe further makes me question the purpose of things. If God is all-powerful, why have the worsening?

    God’s judgement needs to be poured out. He is a Just God.

    For that matter, what right does any being have to my worship and admiration? If I am supposedly created by God, then I was made in such a way as to be capable of demanding a reason for him to be the object of my worship.

    God created you. You can say the same thing about romantic love to a partner or parental affection.