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Please choose wisely....

A. He can't 24 6.96%
 
B. He doesn't want to 86 24.93%
 
C. He causes them 22 6.38%
 
D. He doesn't exist. 213 61.74%
 
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Ouroboros24 on 21 August 2013

God is simple.  I can count what God's rule is.

1.  God is all.  Omnipotent.  Whatever is imaginable, conveivable and everything your mind tells you is impossible, God can and has already done it. 

2.  God is not good or bad.  You do not care for an ant colony no matter their numbers, therefore god does not care for the waves he creates nor the fart you bellow.

3.  All Gods from any religion are the same God.  God is all, no matter the origin.  God makes all religion true. He is Omnipotent.

4.  God doesn't need your worship.  God continues whether or not you care for God's existence.

There should be more, but i'm not really trying.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 21 August 2013
JWeinCom said:
A) The god in the old testament is not portrayed as being omniscient and omnipresent as people conceive him to be now. Take for instance the story of Cain and Abel. After Abel is killed God asks him what happened indicating that he did not know. There are lots of other examples that show stuff like that.


I think thats a test, not really that he didn't know. You know kind of like how your girlfriend asks you a question when she knows the answer, but she really just wants to hear you say what shes hoping you'll say. 



the2real4mafol on 21 August 2013

Because he doesn't exist, he or she is an illusion in our heads



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Oliver4p1 on 21 August 2013

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hentai_11 on 21 August 2013
Oliver4p1 said:
I dont believe in a god in the clouds, (only idiots and atheists believe in that) but I have a belief of a greater meaning and strory of what and who we an our souls be.

Sorry, but atheists don't believe in a god in the clouds. They don't believe in any god. That's the reason they are atheists.



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Oliver4p1 on 21 August 2013

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Licence on 21 August 2013

1) A good act can only be good if there was an option to do evil.
2) God wants us to do good.
hence
3) God must allow evil.

This is what my religious friends tell me anyway. It sounds a bit like BS to me though.



Licence on 21 August 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
JWeinCom said:
A) The god in the old testament is not portrayed as being omniscient and omnipresent as people conceive him to be now. Take for instance the story of Cain and Abel. After Abel is killed God asks him what happened indicating that he did not know. There are lots of other examples that show stuff like that.


I think thats a test, not really that he didn't know. You know kind of like how your girlfriend asks you a question when she knows the answer, but she really just wants to hear you say what shes hoping you'll say. 


If God was omniscient he would not need to do a test - he would know how the test goes beforehand!



Somini on 21 August 2013

''terrible things'' are only terrible from our experience and in our view. God does not cause terrible things, but will let them happen and almost never stops them from happening, that's because they'll be irrelevant 6 billion years from now.

People who do good or bad things will be judged accordingly so that's why nothing has to be stopped. God is not a wizard and expecting him to act like one, only shows how little faith and understanding some have of such a deity.



The Fury on 21 August 2013
Licence said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
JWeinCom said:
A) The god in the old testament is not portrayed as being omniscient and omnipresent as people conceive him to be now. Take for instance the story of Cain and Abel. After Abel is killed God asks him what happened indicating that he did not know. There are lots of other examples that show stuff like that.

I think thats a test, not really that he didn't know. You know kind of like how your girlfriend asks you a question when she knows the answer, but she really just wants to hear you say what shes hoping you'll say. 

If God was omniscient he would not need to do a test - he would know how the test goes beforehand!

Free Will. It's about the idea of faith and trust. If God is oniscient then he could know all possibilities of the future just not which future it is (if he knew what Cain would say then there is only one future and therefore Free Will is an illusion/lie).



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