(February 21, 2016 at 9:37 pm)Lek Wrote:This is either going to lead to the all powerful god who has all these things he has to do because he's really not all powerful. Or it may lead to the god has a plan hypothesis. In other words, the end justifies the means.(February 21, 2016 at 9:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: If your god had not put the tree in the garden in the first place and deprived Adam from the knowledge that what he was doing was evil, there would be no need for god's so called son.
Think of a doctor who gives you something to make you sick, then expects you to feel grateful when he gives you something to cure the sickness he caused.
Depends on how he wants to form us to be ready for eternity.
Feel free to take your argument in some other equally preposterous direction.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.