Well ultimately, to create Humans so that He would be worshiped.

(July 11, 2012 at 11:48 pm)Polaris Wrote: Well ultimately, to create Humans so that He would be worshiped.

And you don't question this deity's desire to have it's ego stroked?

(July 12, 2012 at 12:16 am)ElijahDrew Wrote:

(July 11, 2012 at 11:48 pm)Polaris Wrote: Well ultimately, to create Humans so that He would be worshiped.

And you don't question this deity's desire to have it's ego stroked?

Well I get to enjoy menudo, so no.

(July 12, 2012 at 12:37 am)Polaris Wrote:

(July 12, 2012 at 12:16 am)ElijahDrew Wrote: And you don't question this deity's desire to have it's ego stroked?

Well I get to enjoy menudo, so no.

Menudo? You are of course talking about the franchised Puerto Rican boy band, right.

Their only redeeming value is that once you turn 16 you are kicked out. Kind of like Logan's Run if you ask me.

(July 12, 2012 at 12:41 am)cato123 Wrote:

(July 12, 2012 at 12:37 am)Polaris Wrote: Well I get to enjoy menudo, so no.

Menudo? You are of course talking about the franchised Puerto Rican boy band, right.

Their only redeeming value is that once you turn 16 you are kicked out. Kind of like Logan's Run if you ask me.

*Vomits spectacularly on keyboard*

(July 12, 2012 at 2:13 am)Polaris Wrote:

I've been intending to try that - but my bravery has limits. Perhaps if I didn't know what was in it.

(July 12, 2012 at 2:13 am)Polaris Wrote:

(July 12, 2012 at 12:41 am)cato123 Wrote: Menudo? You are of course talking about the franchised Puerto Rican boy band, right.

Their only redeeming value is that once you turn 16 you are kicked out. Kind of like Logan's Run if you ask me.

Did the boy band name themselves that after the soup, or did the soup get its name after the boy band?

"Oh that band sounds as bad as a cow's stomach"

Or was the band thinking:

"We're as appetizing as a cow's stomach"

???

Oh I just realized this thread has been dead for a year. My bad.

You know newbie, there is a warning notice near the end of the reply box on older threads. Am I babysitting tonight?

Because he did not!!... did he create him to enjoy us being tormented for eternity in a lake of fire or something!!

God is omniscient. When he created the universe, he saw the sufferings which humans would endure as a result of the sin of those original humans. He heard the screams of the damned. Surely he would have known that it would have been better for those humans to never have been born (in fact, the Bible says this very thing), and surely this all-compassionate deity would have foregone the creation of a universe destined to imperfection in which many of the humans were doomed to eternal suffering. A perfectly compassionate being who creates beings which he knows are doomed to suffer is impossible.

What did God do during that eternity before he created everything? If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.