Yes it did. Well... in my religion classes. We are now taking on the 10 commandments. And it's says in the 4th commandment is to honor your mother and father, and on the 5th commandment Thou shall not kill. I also learned that God is omniscient, He knows everything. Then... if God knows that the parents will kill the baby.. then why did God give them one??? I mean, life is our most precious gift, everyone's is. But why would God do that? ... 12 year-old's curiosity :]
Well...god didn't invent abortion. Everyday I see more and more proof that the "divine plan" is fake. Also, why does God break his own commandment by killing millions of people all throughout the bible?
Choice; we have the right and ability to behave in ways we choose to. And this is with respect to whether or not a god actually exists. Trying to attribute everything to some divine plan removes choice out of the equation, because if everything is preordained (like God deciding to give children to negligent and irresponsible parents, as opposed to irresponsible behaviour on the part of irresponsible people leading to pregnancy) then we never really had a choice in the matter to begin with. There is no such thing as fate or a divine plan that we're all following, only probability and the strength of said probability in the likelihood of some events occurring more than others.
Well it's just one of the many flaws found in the foundation of religion, in my opinion. Also if you look at the commandments you'll see that you could combine some of them into one. Religion is shakey. lol However most of this can be overturned with the fact God gave us "free will."
This is completely right. This really is more a matter of choice, than a divine plan. We just try to blame everything on some divine entity that might or not exist....just because of OUR choices and occurences....just another way to run away from the truth, really.
The commandments aren't saying those things won't happen, but "Thou shalt" be punished if you do. ... methinks. >>
