Andir said:
Grey Acumen said:
Why is it that everyone who argues against the existance of God seems incapable of understanding that just because God is ALL POWERFUL does not mean that God is somehow incapable of refraining from using that power to force people to do things. This view is only held by those who are inherently weak. When you KNOW you have power, power that is yours and can never be taken away from you, there is NO NEED TO ABUSE IT. People who abuse power do it almost ALWAYS out of a lack of intelligence, out of fear of losing their power, or because the extent of their power is actually very limited in scope. God knows how the universe works, and he created humans with free will. If he did all the work for them, it would be pointless, he's god, he's all powerful, he already knows that he can succeed. The point comes from watching and guiding an imperfect being towards perfection. He knows all the rules, these rules are really tough to learn and remember, so in order to make sure it sticks, sometimes it's gotta be learned the hard way, but the right answer has to be kept out there and constantly available so people can have that choice available to make. why do math teachers inevidably insist on teaching us that 2 + 2 = 4? Because that's teh right answer, sure, there may be a bunch of jackasses that try to get you to believe it's 3. There may be other people who confuse teh issue by telling you it's 20/5ths, but it still boils down to the fact that they tell you it because that's teh answer. |
Then why use the power in the first place? Was God afraid of losing the power if he didn't use it? Are we toys in his box of games? And how can you prove that the answer is that there is one God? I know that if I have 2 lemons and add another 2 lemons, I'll have 4 lemons. I can see them. How are you so certain that thier is one God controlling everything? Why couldn't there be 12 Gods? What's the defining evidence that there's only one? |
Because the only way for power and knowledge to have any meaning is to create with it and pass the knowledge on to those who lack it.Using his power to create life and then guide that life into understanding the world it lives in. Any decent teacher or parent can certainly understand that basic concept. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
And really, if you want to compare it to lemons, fine. if you have two lemons lined up in a row, and you're sitting so that one lemon is in front of the other, and you refuse to ever move from the position you're in, you're never going to see that there are two lemons, you'll only see one. and so it isn't observable that adding 2 lemons + 2 lemons = 4 lemons.
