According to the religious, god is all powerful and all knowing. He created everything, good and bad. He created sin and all those evil things to temp us. Those select few, those who can lead a good and righteous life, those who can avoid whatever sins their particular holy book finds egregious, only those few can go on to heaven.

Heaven the real prize.

Everlasting peace and happiness compared to at most a hundred years of life on earth .. phht.. it doesn't even compare. All the glory of gods' heaven can be yours if you lead a life prescribed by 'THE' holy book. It's been said 'wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction'. Follow the narrow path to avoid all the sin and temptation god put in this world to lead you astray.

Why?

Is it just to see who is worthy of heaven?

Why go thru all the trouble to see who's naughty and who's nice? He should know.
If free will is an issue, why do the choices have to be between good and bad? Couldn't an all powerful being give you a choice between good and better? With no chance of bad? Or maybe just make the chances even , remember, narrow is path to heaven and wide is gate hell. Sounds like instead of making it easy to get to heaven the odds are stacked against you.

If god is all powerful and all knowing why not create us however he wants and just put us right into heaven?

If god is all powerful, the extra step doesn't make sense. Why the test?


What is this life for?
To reduce it to some sort of evaluation to see who is good enough for something better lowers the value of this life.

I use mine for fucking, fighting, and food. Not necessarily in that order.

(December 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I use mine for fucking, fighting, and food. Not necessarily in that order.

Love it!

If "god" created humans as he wanted them to be, all perfect, then he wouldn't have the pleasure of fucking his little creations over, now would he? If there be a god, (That's a BIG if)then he created the human species because he was bored. Making us perfect would only extend that problem. If he makes us all fallible, well, then the show really begins!

screw that! life is for living and we only live once! if everone did everything by "the book" our life on earth will be dull and wasted, we should'nt be locked up like that! WE SHOULD BE FREE TO FLY WHERE WE WANT TO!

everyone who lives by "the book" should realise that!

free as a bird baby! well, when i get out of school i will be MORE FREE! Ha!

I agree, in the scriptures god is always testing us knowing full well who will earn heaven and who will burn in hell. I think that if god did exist and the bible were true it clearly show us that god created us for his own personal amusement.

When asked about a purpose in life I say why ask why. You live and try to make the most of your journey here and you die like so many that have preceded you. There is no purpose, enjoy it while it lasts.

(December 29, 2009 at 8:30 pm)Rhage Wrote: If there be a god, (That's a BIG if)then he created the human species because he was perfectly bored.

fixed

Why does it have to be "for" anything?

And you're right HJ, an omniscient creator and any kind of "test" are mutually exclusive (since an omniscient being already knows the outcome).

Most of you seem to talk as if evolution has finished, done it's course, for the human species. For most of you it probably has!

Ah, yes, humans! The centre of the Universe!

(December 30, 2009 at 7:22 am)ib.me.ub Wrote: Most of you seem to talk as if evolution has finished, done it's course, for the human species. For most of you it probably has!

Well, if you believe evolution hasn't finished for you, try evolving right now in someone who understands evolution.

Evolution is not about physical transformation on an individual level.

Really, so how does it take place then?