Late to the party today, reading notables. But I think Pompeo would makes an excellent second term VP and a worthy 2024 candidate for the presidency.
The US in a couple of years.
It’s not a moral test. It’s a faith test. We are on an even playing field of disqualification via earning heaven by being good.
Heaven is for the faithful. Not the “most good.” Though, ideally, there should be a sloppy correlation of those two variables.
The good thing about your pessimism is you’ll be the most delighted with a happy ending. Especially if it feels like a twist ending.
In other words, God gave us the choice between good and evil but we all chose evil. Not being satisfied sending everyone to Hell, God offers forgiveness to anyone who recognizes their evil and repents of it.
Why the contempt for a lifeline out of a situation we willingly got ourselves into?
We are on the same side. We only differ on our hope for the future. I hope I am the one who will be validated at the end of this. That would be best for both of us.
We have all purposefully done wrong in our lives at one point or another, sure.
Would God not be capable of creating beings with only free will? Who is responsible for the actions of a being who took them freely?
If God created only people who would choose obedience, has he given free will? Or has he made programmed slaves?