(March 12, 2016 at 6:53 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(March 12, 2016 at 6:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't know what we are compared to God.
The difference between a human parent running out to grab their toddler son off the street, and God changing things that would naturally happen, is that for God to do it would require divine intervention. And like Tibs said, you start getting into a slippery slope. Why didn't God stop the toddler from getting hit by a car? Why didn't God stop my brother from getting severe food poisoning last week? Why didn't God prevent me from stubbing my toe? If God were to prevent every negative thing that were about to happen, we wouldn't have free will anymore.
So.... conceptually... what's the difference between a non-interventionalist god and a non-existent god?
Well, you're asking a theist that lol. If God didn't exist I don't think anything would exist at all.
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