I spoke to DG again last night about his serious lack of blogging. He said (and I quote): "dady i dont hav time to be blogee rite now stop askee me abot it!!!"
I told him he had nothing but time, to which he replied he "rilly havs nothing worth blogee abot".
So then I asked him if he had found any new photos he might want to share and a look of stunned realization froze on his face. He squeaked and then flew into the bedroom (where my laptop resides) shouting, "ohyeah! ohyeah! ohyeah! ohyeah!"
I kept checking his blog the rest of the evening, certain he was going to post some super-cool "kitteh pixshurs". Nothing new was ever posted.
Then, this morning, I find the following in my e-mail:
To: kirkstarr@*********
From: teh_deej@*********
Subject: pixshurs to posthi dady this is dg wuld you pleeze post this pixshurs on your vox blog for me?
love dg
*sigh* Oh, well. I'm sure he'll get back into it again by summertime. Here are the images he wanted me to show you guys. Have a great day, peeps!
I’m hoping there’s someone out there who knows enough about the unknowable that I can get a difficult query answered in a way that satisfies my pesky logic bone.
I’m told that God, in all his omnipotent power, loves us and wants us to love him, but refuses to show himself to us directly because he wants our love to be a personal choice, done of our own freewill. It’s been further explained that even if we could endure the voice and/or sight of God, his presence would be so incredible we would become instantly enchanted by it and thus have our freewill effectively displaced. Now, ignoring the glaring contradiction in the notion an omnipotent being is incapable of revealing himself without blowing our minds (is he all-powerful or isn’t he?), my basic question is this:
If God only wants us to come to him of our own freewill, then why does he feel the need to threaten nonbelievers with eternal torment?
Fair Warning: Anyone responding that humans simply can't understand the ways of God gets an F. I want critical thought; not senseless platitudes.
