40 awkward Questions To Ask A Christian

[fr0d0]

I had it right the first time.

[Nightfoot92]

Here's a really difficult and awkward question for Christians to answer (and by difficult, I mean impossible). So god is perfect, right? And perfect means that nothing can be added to something, only detracted from, right? So if god was defined as a perfect being before creating something, he made something that was another part of existence. So god added something to his already perfect existence. How is that possible? How can a being defined as being perfect suddenly add something to his existence? A perfect being that creates something is impossible. It is like having a 5 sided square or a cubed sphere. The best analogy i can think of is adding a number to infinity. you cant do it can you? infinity cannot be changed, added to, or detracted from because it already has every single number that is ever possible. just like our resident "perfect" creator god. It is not possible.

[Faith No More]

To play devil's advocate here, a good apologist would tell you that god didn't create anything. He simply transformed that which already existed, himself, into what we perceive as a creation.

[Nightfoot92]

At which point I say that Christians always say that god is an unchanging entity. They say that he is good and always will be; that his nature is unchangeable. That he is a static entity.

[Faith No More]

And then they will hit you with semantics like his "nature" only includes his will and isn't actually a physical constraint.

[Nightfoot92]

Shhh, quiet, the other Christians might hear you and actually believe that what you are saying has real merit to it. Quiet you.

[fr0d0]

Yeah Aquinas answered the same a few hundred years ago. Go fill your boots.