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When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences by Norman L. Geisler
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“The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping”
Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences
“It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God cant force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.

Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, But they do will it.
They make the decision to reject God, even though they don’t’ desire punishment.

People don’t go to hell because God sends them; they choose it and God respects their freedom.”
Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences
“We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing.
Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought.
Without logic (the laws of thought), we can’t even think”
Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences
“Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.”
Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences
“It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can’t force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.”
Norman L. Geisler, When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences