laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (03/31/85)
I think that you miss my point. Given that the Christianity is true, it isn't until the time of Abraham that anyone got to hear exactly what God wanted. WHat about all the people who suffered before that time? What about the suffering in Africa, Australia, and North America? Am I to believe that gernerations of people suffered and died pointlessly until Christians arrived at these places, at which point it became the Christians fault? And all the while there is a God who could either stop the suffereing, or at any rate explain teh purpose of the suffering who does nothing? I find this notion rather difficult to reconcile with the notion that God is merciful. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura