(September 10, 2015 at 12:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(September 10, 2015 at 11:55 am)bennyboy Wrote: Yeah, but if you're making shit up, why not go for gold? All you have to do is say, "Yeah, the paradoxes don't make sense. But god is so omni-powerful that he's stronger even than paradox." See, easy.
I guess I didn't get across where I'm coming from in my previous post. It's not that they go for gold that perplexes me. It's that actually, the books don't explicitly outline their god's omnipotence. They certainly give a strong hint at it, but like the Jewish guy said (I'll try and find the vid), it's not strictly something that the religious need to defend. Which is what confuses me, because an awful lot of religious people defend the omni bullshit to the hilt like it is actually scripture.
To me, saying your god created the universe, as powerful as that implies he is, it doesn't automatically mean he's omnipotent, like Min is trying to suggest. Same with any other verses that I've seen, they don't outright say god can do anything as and when he pleases. But I'm not a bible basher which is why I'm kinda cross-referencing that.
That's right. The followers of the religion have made up much of the bullshit that they currently adhere to, despite its absence in their book. To me, this is good evidence that Christians don't believe in Christ, or anything he said. Show me one Christian who sells all they own to give to the poor, and who refuses to judge anyone else ("Let he among you without sin. . ."), and I'll show you a decent human being. But most Christians aren't decent human beings, or at least not more so than me or you or anyone else.
