So far, we’ve discussed morality and how the Mormon god is not the Christian God. Today, we’re going to talk about more of her reasons why God does not exist.

After she left Mormonism, Alyssa talks about how people who told her about God – essentially just through personal stories where God saved them from something – like a medical issue or a car accident, and she mentions all the people that God didn’t save. She relates this outcome rather to people living in societies with good healthcare, and she doesn’t understand why God seems to save those in rich nations versus those in less affluent nations. Overall, it leads her to question why God doesn’t bless everyone who doesn’t have all those advantages. I think this is just a logical fallacy. God saves both rich and poor, and miracles do still happen. But He also lets people die. People that you might think should have been saved. Matthew 5:45 explains this phenomenon:

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

No one is immune from difficulties and trials, no matter how good of a person you are, how poor you are, or how rich you are. And Alyssa’s position on this just is not very solid. 

Alyssa continues and says that God is a double edge sword – both loving and judging you. She says it’s a stressful relationship, with one having to constantly ask for forgiveness and repent. She, of course, brings up that the Bible says to love your neighbor and judge not lest ye be judged, yet christians attack LGBTQ rights in the US. She concludes that “it doesn’t sound like Jesus’ teachings” and that “Jesus would not approve how we treat immigrants in our country”. Ironically, she calls Christianity “buffet religion”, when – in her argument – she is picking and choosing what to use from the Bible to further prove that God does not exist.

Many people bring up the two points that she made. The first is that the love your neighbor bit from Mark 12 is taken out of context (shocking, I know). If anyone who brings up that verse and has the stance that Alyssa does also supports abortion, then they are proving that they are not loving their neighbor. A side point, but one that is very important. 

In Mark 12, God tells us that we must love Him above ourselves, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. However…love does not mean accept. It comes back to the whole, “if God is really loving, how could He send someone to Hell?”. I covered that extensively in this post. God would be the opposite of loving if He gave His life to forgive our sins, but then turned around and accepted everyone as they are. He loves everyone and wants everyone to come to Him – but He doesn’t accept everyone. 

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

– John 14:6

Yes, we are supposed to love everyone, but that in no way means that we accept or affirm the sin that they are living in. 

The second point is the whole judge not lest ye be judged that is also (wait for it…) taken out of context. Let’s read the entire passage:

“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”

– Matthew 7:1-5

Did you catch the entire point? It’s essentially God saying “If you’re gonna judge, you better be sure you’re not going to be a hypocrite, because it will come right back at you.” For example, if you judge someone for their alcoholism, but you sip on wine occasionally, it’s going to be found out and you will be a hypocrite. That is the point of the passage – to not be a hypocrite. Not to not judge, because we are supposed to evaluate and judge, but we are not supposed to be hypocrites. 

Next time, we’ll keep diving into her reasoning as to why she is atheist.

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