u/Sorry-Mine3024

The existence of suffering on Earth, despite the absence of suffering in heaven, suggests that free will is not the sole cause of evil, and a genuine relationship with God can exist without suffering.

The argument that free will is the cause of evil and that free will is also necessary for a relationship with God assumes that suffering is an inherent part of free will however, the existence of heaven, which is a place where there's no suffering challenges this logic because If a relationship with God can exist in heaven without suffering, it shows that a there are other mechanisms or conditions under which a genuine relationship can be maintained without the presence of evil. This suggests that free will, while important, may not be the only factor contributing to the existence of evil, and alternative explanations or conditions could allow for a meaningful connection with God without suffering.

**I have a genuine question, and I don’t mean any disrespect to anyone’s beliefs. This is just something I was thinking about in the shower.**
If Judaism were somehow conclusively proven to be a human invention and not true, would that also mean Christianity is false? My reasoning is that Jesus referred to Jewish prophets, events, and scriptures as real and authoritative. If Judaism were proven false, wouldn’t those references also be false? Would that undermine Jesus’ teachings and, by extension, Christianity?
I’m asking this out of curiosity and a desire to understand, not to offend anyone or attack their beliefs.

I have a genuine question, and I don’t mean any disrespect to anyone’s beliefs. This is just something I was thinking about in the shower.
If Judaism were somehow conclusively proven to be a human invention and not true, would that also mean Christianity is false? My reasoning is that Jesus referred to Jewish prophets, events, and scriptures as real and authoritative. If Judaism were proven false, wouldn’t those references also be false? Would that undermine Jesus’ teachings and, by extension, Christianity?
I’m asking this out of curiosity and a desire to understand, not to offend anyone or attack their beliefs.

Correct me if I’m wrong because I’m just a 14-year-old and don’t know much about this, but I was thinking: what if there was some kind of reality before the Big Bang where the laws of nature were completely different from ours? Maybe everything operated according to entirely different principles, and the Big Bang created a new universe with its own distinct laws of physics. It also made me wonder whether asking what came before that reality might not even make sense, because it could operate according to principles that our minds are fundamentally incapable of understanding or even imagining.

So I was arguing with a friend on whether god is real or not and he claimed that god must be real because of the laws of logic and he used this "Whatever begins to exist has a cause": This is a true logical and metaphysical principle. It applies only to things that have a starting point in time
—things that went from non-existence to existence (like the universe, stars, humans, and cell phones).” So as we know the universe did have a begging so it does need to follow that and now I’m starting to actually think that god exists because of this argument so can anyone maybe prove it wrong or else I might turn back into religion

So, I’m 14, and I’ve been reading about communism for a few months now. I’d say I’m a communist myself if it wasn’t for the fact that so many people died in the USSR. I think my favorite leader was probably Vladimir Lenin because I do like his policies, and I thought his government was almost perfect. But then I was reading about it, and I found out about the Russian famine of 1921–1922. I also found out that one of the reasons it happened was a lack of incentive among the people, so I want to know: was it caused by communism or something else?

And I also found out that the famine stopped after US intervention.

So, I’m 14, and I’ve been reading about communism for a few months now. I’d say I’m a communist myself if it wasn’t for the fact that so many people died in the USSR. I think my favorite leader was probably Vladimir Lenin because I do like his policies, and I thought his government was almost perfect. But then I was reading about it, and I found out about the Russian famine of 1921–1922. I also found out that one of the reasons it happened was a lack of incentive among the people, so I want to know: was it caused by communism or something else?

And I also found out that the famine stopped after US intervention.