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Is god really omniscient?
#21
RE: Is god really omniscient?
(September 26, 2013 at 2:18 am)max-greece Wrote: A truly omniscient being would probably be suicidal. What would there be to live for if you knew everything that had happened, everything that was happening now and everything that was going to happen.

How would that being get up in the morning? What would it have to look forward to?

If I were omniscient then I might know the answer to that question. However, I'm either not omniscient, or I'm pretending not to be omniscient so as not to alarm the natives, so I am unable to help you.


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#22
RE: Is god really omniscient?
Quote:If I were a theist, I would avoid any reference to an omni-faceted being.


It's a corner they have painted themselves into. Sucks to be them.
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#23
RE: Is god really omniscient?
Is god really omniscient? God is basically whatever his believers want him to be.
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#24
RE: Is god really omniscient?
(September 26, 2013 at 12:27 pm)Airyaman Wrote: Is god really omniscient? God is basically whatever his believers want him to be.

More specifically, God is whatever his beleivers imagine will make him invulnerable to scientific progress.
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#25
RE: Is god really omniscient?
Except that his will can apparently be thwarted by a woman taking a pill every month or a little rubber sheath thingy.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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#26
RE: Is god really omniscient?
Does God have a God of his own to worship?

If not then God is an atheist.

And as God is always right.

He doesn't exist.

Came to me in the car taking my daughter to Ballet but based on something I wrote in another thread I now can't find. Maybe it disappeared with God.
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#27
RE: Is god really omniscient?
(September 26, 2013 at 7:57 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: As soon as one introduces omni-facets into a being, and then uses (for example) the bible as a reference of behaviour to said being, then you come up against contradiction after contradiction as to the reasoning and behaviour behind said actions.

The simplest solution is to use the "all" modifier. All-knowing. All-powerful (or Almighty). It implies that you're dealing with an omni-something being, without explicitly saying so. Even better, you can fudge the heck out of the definition for any of them, or even fall back on the old "the Greek word for [term] could mean..." and really obfuscate the shit out of your explanation.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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#28
RE: Is god really omniscient?
(September 26, 2013 at 12:13 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Why you be copying my threads Lemon?

Not exactly, I seen one of yours and thought it was really good and I was going to post it there but I didn't want to jack your thread. This was something I have thinking about on and off anyway.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#29
RE: Is god really omniscient?
(September 26, 2013 at 1:05 pm)max-greece Wrote: Does God have a God of his own to worship?

If not then God is an atheist.

And as God is always right.

He doesn't exist.

Came to me in the car taking my daughter to Ballet but based on something I wrote in another thread I now can't find. Maybe it disappeared with God.

Atheism is not about having gods to worship, its about not believing in gods. I'm sure if god existed he would believe in himself...
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#30
RE: Is god really omniscient?
I always knew this question would arise...Angel
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