Mr. Baseball
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IMDB rating: 5.40 Plot: A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude. |
Actors: Selleck Tom,Takakura Ken,Haysbert Dennis,Shioya Toshi,Toyohara Kosuke,Fujiwara Toshizo,Takano Mak,Morinaga Kenji,Nishimura Joh,Goto Norihide,Toita Kensuke,Fuji Naoki,Hozumi Takanobu,Lee Leon,Comedy,Romance,Sport,
How come people blame God for burning them alive? And blame God for everything else?
Someone just wrote this in replying about the Love of God: "You can say you love me all you want, if you end up burning me alive forever, I have to assume you hated me more than I could ever hate anyone."
So my question is this.
How come people don’t get it?
Consider this:
Prisoner has a gripe and requests to speak to the warden. The warden ok’s it.
Prisoner: "Warden, I don’t like the food in here I tell ya! You gotta give me better food damn it! People in here tell me that you’ve told them you love them before Warden. Don’t you love me? If you do then let me out of jail Warden or at least give me some better food damn it!"
Warden replies: Certainly I love you but did I kill Mrs.Johnson? Did I take a baseball bat and hit an 80 year old woman in the head with it and kill her? I didn’t commit the crime Mr.Jensen you did and you owe for the crime Mr. Jensen and the penalty for the crime Mr.Jensen is that you have to serve 50 years in prison while eating bad food the entire time. I would have loved nothing more than for you to have been a man of character who did not commit such a crime but in fact you did do it Mr.Jensen therefore please do not be angry with me because I am one who is given the task of exacting justice upon you. Now go back to your cell and know that I do indeed love you but you chose to commit the crime."
So God has told us, "the wages of sin is death."
And unlike the earthy warden…..our Heavenly Warden decided to give us a "get out of jail free card" and to pay the penalty for us.
Yet the prisoner will not believe it….and will not even admit that he needs a get out of jail free card.
So in jail he remains…and he will remain there until he can pay the penalty in full which will take eternity.
How come people blame God?
Just look at how many replies prove people don’t have "eyes to see and ears to hear." It truly amazes me…but shouldn’t I know.
The point…for the dull……is that WE are guilty because we chose to sin. God tried to warn us and has always continually tried to warn us. He’s warning you every single day and you mock it and turn aside from it and want to do your evil though He warned you what the consequences would be. Yet like the criminal in my "bad" analogy you want to blame everyone but YOU!
Is there a man out there who claims no sin? I’ll show you a fool and a liar.
All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God but the Glory of God offers a pardon and you STILL spit in His face.
No, your penalty is just…and it is everlasting just as He said it is.
You loved a lie instead of the truth. You loved YOU and your Father…the Father of lies more than you loved God and the truth.
Your penalty is deserved. Wallow in it.
They don’t want to accept responsibility for their own actions
They want to blame someone or something else when things go wrong but take all the credit when things go right.
They are looking for excuses. Excuses not to believe in God, excuses to do wrongful things, excuses to blame others.
Rolling Stone | Dec 07, 2009
Isn’t your god the source of all?
Do you blame an abused child for their dysfunctional behavior, or do you blame the person that molested them?
Wanna find the solution to a problem? Look to the source.
Silent-H | Dec 07, 2009
If God cannot tell the difference between slaughter and justified skepticism, then he is not worthy of my praise. Patrick Henry summed it up pretty nicely.
A Modest Proposal | Dec 07, 2009
Maybe because the sentence isn’t 50 years.
Or maybe because it isn’t required that you murder someone in order to get the punishment. In fact, all you have to do to get punished is not worship God completely.
Or maybe because unlike a warden God is able to either effortless change us or put is in a place where it is impossible for us to hurt anyone without hurting us.
Or maybe because no warden would ever say those things.
Saint Onle | Dec 07, 2009
Congratulations, you just compared eternal torture to jail and lack of faith to homicide.
Darth Doga. | Dec 07, 2009
not everyone who dies did something bad!
my aunt died last year (was a christian and went to church very often) and she was truly a great soul. she died from cancer and left behind 3 kids under the age of 7…
what about accidents involving religious people? a church full of people praying to god on a sunday morning collapsed and almost all of the people died!
i don’t blame god though, because i don’t think he exists. if he is real, he is letting millions of terrible things happen every single day to good and innocent people. i will not worship that.
jayelle | Dec 07, 2009
In the real world, people are innocent until proven guilty.
Mark | Dec 07, 2009
You lost me at "Warden replies".
Here is a serious answer, you will not like:
If in the beginning God was alone, and created everything and everything he
created was perfect (because God himself is perfect), how did evil come to be?
That being said, an assuming evil did come to be one way or another. The Bible
claims Adam and Eve where perfect, they where going to be the only two humans
on earth. If they where really so perfect, why would they not resist the seduction
of Satan, but now knowing that Satan himself was once on Gods right hand side, yet
still turns bad, why would his humans not do the same? If this is the way that God planned
it, why does it say he was sad when Satan turned his back on him, it must of been unforeseen.
There are a lot of contradictions and loopholes in the Bible, seeing how they where written by
man, not God himself. Unless the Bible was part of his divine plan, then one would assume it
would be written perfect. If your answer to loopholes, Satan and the humans rebelling is "part of the divine plan", the would free will not interfere with that, unless your free will is still scripted, then free will is only a comfort mask, much like the Bible itself, and the point of all this is, if our lives are foreseen, then that means he makes us some of us with the soul purpose of killing, and that is not a loving God. Then if you say that "well, we all have free will", then what would say there is no divine plan, and Gods creations rebelled against him, against his will, proving everything he makes is not perfect. I would have no problem having a God who makes mistakes like we do, after all we are in his image; therefor’ we are his mistakes?
Sorry for wall of text, just how I feel myself,
Peace,
-Drew
Cappinponcho | Dec 07, 2009
There are a few issues with your analogy.
First of all, 50 years in prison is NOTHING like eternal torture and agony in hell. Is there anything anyone could ever do that you would say "yeah, I think this person deserves to be tortured for the rest of their lives, non-stop"? Anything at all? And note that this is "for the rest of their lives", not even "for ever". God, by the way, considers not loving him deserving of this punishment. That is not what I, or most people, would consider "just and fair punishment".
Second, God is allegedy omniscient, which means he created each person on earth with the advance knowledge of who would end up in heaven and who would end up in hell. So it must be that God creates certain people for the sole purpose of ending up in hell, since he knows before they’re even born that they will live for an infinitesimal blip of time on earth, then the rest of their existence will be in hell.
God’s role is therefore very different from the prison warden’s role in your analogy. To make the warden a good analogy for God, he would need modifications: First, he would need to go out and mark all newborn babies the instant they’re born with either "prison" or "no prison". Those marked "prison" will end up in his prison inevitably. Second, the warden would need to torture people for their entire natural lifespans rather than imprison them. Third, the laws in the country in which the warden rules would need to be EXTREMELY strict. People would need to be sent to prison for such things as not beliving in the Warden’s existence, not loving the warden back, not liking a particular book the warden wrote that explains his laws or making fun of the warden in any way.
God isn’t called unjust for punishing people who have commited crimes. He is called unjust (by me, anyway) for created people for the sole purpose of going to hell, for punishing finite crimes on earth with infinite punishment, and for using such brutally cruel punishment methods for such petty "crimes", some of which can’t even be considered crimes.
If you consider hell just, then I would suggest you first go out and experience what it’s like to be near someone who is burned alive. What that looks, sounds and smells like. Imagine that a thousand times over, then come back and tell me that it’s okay to subject millions of people to that forever.
Cheers!
Pye
Pye | Dec 07, 2009
A billion die every year from cancer, heart disease and strokes alone!!
3 million die every year from starvation, drought and the diseases caused by it.
200,000 from natural disasters!!
This god who christians credit with creating and causing everything seems to love killing more people every second than the number of people that have ever been claimed to have been saved by his miracles!!
Sage | Dec 07, 2009
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