I can never forgive God for this!

[Doulos Iesou]

How do you know that you were once a sociopath?
It is not in the nature of a sociopath to be concerned with others, so how do you account for that change?

1. Since I am aware that that sociopaths are
2. Blind to their disorder, thinking that nothing is wrong with them,
3. Incapable of empathetic expressions to others
4. Incapable of expressing remorse or sorrow
5. Grandiose to the extent of being megalomaniac

Your concern for others is highly contrary to such a personality disorder, and that disorder is so encompassing of one's personality, it renders a person very unlikely to be either seeing a need for, or for someone wanting to change his behavior. Therefore, I ask you these questions:

• How do you account for your change?
  
• How long did it take?
• Of what did your treatment for such a pernicious, life-dominating, and self-absorbed thought pattern consist?

I'm curious how these questions are relevant to the discussion.

He said he once was a sociopath and no longer is, therefore his current behavior would not be indicative of a past condition.

Just curious as to why you are giving him the full inquisition for something that is a deeply personal matter.

 

[popematthew]

Only God knows for sure that I was a sociopath. I really would have enjoyed killing people for the pleasure of it at that time and I didn't think others had feelings. Sounds sociopathic to me. lol

What would you think of a Father who could help his child as it is drowning but just watches and does nothing? What would you think of a Father who watched his son/daughter get raped, tortured, and murdered, and have all the ability to to intervene but instead just watches and cries and says, "i love you, i'm sorry"?
God is our Father and he can help all these people. He's extremely wealthy, extremely strong, and all knowing, yet refuses to even answer my simple questions for instruction on what to do with my life and who to trust.
All im asking is that he would direct me and give me some instruction. I dont want it to come from a book. I want it to come from a Father/Mother/God.

 

[WIP]

Only God knows for sure that I was a sociopath. I really would have enjoyed killing people for the pleasure of it at that time and I didn't think others had feelings. Sounds sociopathic to me. lol

What would you think of a Father who could help his child as it is drowning but just watches and does nothing? What would you think of a Father who watched his son/daughter get raped, tortured, and murdered, and have all the ability to to intervene but instead just watches and cries and says, "i love you, i'm sorry"?
God is our Father and he can help all these people. He's extremely wealthy, extremely strong, and all knowing, yet refuses to even answer my simple questions for instruction on what to do with my life and who to trust.
All im asking is that he would direct me and give me some instruction. I dont want it to come from a book. I want it to come from a Father/Mother/God.

You are asking these questions of us but perhaps you need to ask God.

 

[Willie T]

I can never be okay and content with God's decision to allow people to suffer forever and ever and ever because of the mistakes they made in this short life or their disbelief. Isn't 100 years of suffering enough, or 100,000 years God? Don't let them suffer forever! I can never reconcile with God if he would permit people to be in agony for eternity. He could stop it at any time and he chooses not to. It makes me very upset and my hope and prayer is that it isn't true.

We all feel this same way if we could manage to be totally honest with ourselves. It is only because we believe that our personal condition and position puts on the side of NOT going to Hell, that we feel there is no problem with a Hell existing for others .

In other words, if there was a machine we each could walk past, and we would, right here and now, receive either an "APPROVED" or a "HELL BOUND" mark on our heads........... Do you honestly think there would be a single one of us who, looking into a mirror, and seeing a "HELL BOUND" mark on our own foreheads, would simply smile, and thank God that He is so just?

No way! And we all know it. (Even those who will soon post here, denying it.) But, we're human... and even if we fault Calvinists for THEIR exclusionary elitist attitudes, we all are accepting of most "judgments"..... as long as we are satisfied that those judgments aren't going to happen to US.

Why do you think the very popular sick, twisted preaching of FEAR works so well in so many churches? No one wants to go to Hell, so we try to find out what is supposed to keep us out of there, and we jump onboard.

Might I suggest you quit worrying about being Bar-B-Qued because someone told you he found that in a book, and simply begin quietly asking Jesus if He will come and let you find out who He is? That's what it's all about.... NOT escaping Hell by signing up for a fire insurance policy. If we all knew for a fact that when we die, that's it... OBLIVION....... would your choice be to spend those few short years being a friend of Christ's, or would you choose to party like crazy, and have a ball?

Frankly, therein lies the answer to whether or not you will actually be "in Him", or not. And, really, that is not a bad way to approach life.... since Eternity doesn't begin when we die (and hope we win the "Heaven" Lottery), rather it has already begun, and we are living it, day-by-day.

 

[Eugene]

Only God knows for sure that I was a sociopath. I really would have enjoyed killing people for the pleasure of it at that time and I didn't think others had feelings. Sounds sociopathic to me. lol

What would you think of a Father who could help his child as it is drowning but just watches and does nothing? What would you think of a Father who watched his son/daughter get raped, tortured, and murdered, and have all the ability to to intervene but instead just watches and cries and says, "i love you, i'm sorry"?
God is our Father and he can help all these people. He's extremely wealthy, extremely strong, and all knowing, yet refuses to even answer my simple questions for instruction on what to do with my life and who to trust.
All im asking is that he would direct me and give me some instruction. I dont want it to come from a book. I want it to come from a Father/Mother/God.

Does God owe you more than He has given? if so, why?

 

[GrannyJ]

Hi Matthew. God does not just stand back and say, I love you, I'm sorry. Instead, He came to us in the person of Jesus; reached out to us in love, and paid the ultimate penalty of an excruciatingly painful death on the cross. Take time to think about what He suffered, with nails through His hands and feet, and every joint stretched to agony. He did this voluntarily, because He loves us. We can never look on the cross and say that God is oblivious to our suffering. He did this fory you, personally, and if you fully realise this, you can never again doubt that He truly loves you.

His hand is reaching out to you. Take it; when you do, He will take care of the rest.

Thirty five years ago I made the mistake of getting hung up on the Hell doctrine, stopped going to church, and ultimately made a mess of not only my own life, but the lives of people I loved. In His love and kindness, He has called me back. I take one step at a time, and believe nothing of what I am taught without prayer and studying the Bible. Does the Bible really teach that we are going to suffer for eternity in hell? Have you confirmed that from your own study, or are you only believing what you have been told?

Please don't make the same mistakes that I made, and waste your life. Jesus has shown irrefutably on the cross that He loves you. Accept it.

 

[TimothyW]

I can never be okay and content with God's decision to allow people to suffer forever and ever and ever because of the mistakes they made in this short life or their disbelief. Isn't 100 years of suffering enough, or 100,000 years God? Don't let them suffer forever! I can never reconcile with God if he would permit people to be in agony for eternity. He could stop it at any time and he chooses not to. It makes me very upset and my hope and prayer is that it isn't true.

It isn't true. The Bible never says that the penalty for sin is 100,000 years or more of suffering in hell. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. You are correct to reject the false teaching of eternal torment in hell.