It is child abuse.
What kind of God does this?
Yes, I am Catholic, follow all the commandments, but this sickens me and I do not pretend to understand it.
And still I see innocents suffering evil in this depraved Creation.
hopelessness, yet God is our only hope. All it would take from Him is a nod, why won’t He nod?
I wouldn’t look to God as “celestial butler”.
Read Prov. 16:4...I find it interesting that there are those that God would not seek to redeem.
Jesus took it on Himself.
John 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
This (the crucifixion) is what it took to pay for your sin and mine. It shows us the ugliness of sin and the seriousness with which it is treated by God.
That is why no amount of good works a person can do can ever begin to pay for our sin. Our sin is far more heinous than we can ever imagine and to think that our pitiful little deeds that we call good works can appease God's wrath and judgment of sin is an affront to God and Jesus and what He endured so many years ago. Adding them to the finished work of Christ on the cross, thinking that they will somehow contribute to our salvation, diminishes what Christ endures on our behalf out of love for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This is why born again believers do not consider works necessary to attain salvation and this is why (out of gratitude) we do good works after we're saved.
Wait; Grasshopper: wait.
All will be revealed in due time.