(October 5, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ok, so let's suppose that God really does exist and that He proved His existence to you. He showed up and did exactly whatever was needed to convince you personally that He is real.
Right there we are taking quite the bold step. I honestly can't realistically think of such a scenario.
Quote:You had a conversation with Him for many many hours, over the course of many days in a row, and He even showed you things... like certain things in the future of humanity so you could see how everything will ultimately fall together. He took you back in time so you could see particular events, including many moments from the life of Jesus. He showed you what the afterlife is like, fully answered every single one of your questions about why He allows certain things to happen, etc, and cleared up all misconceptions and misunderstandings you have had that made you think He was bad.
I don't think He is bad. Sure, many of his traits are bad. But ultimately I think he is unreal and defined in such contradictory, unrealistic ways that he can't possibly exist for real.
Quote:Let's say you came away from all that realizing God isn't who you thought He would have been, but is actually completely good. Would you then want to be with Him? Want to follow His ways?
Who knows, Lady? Such a scenario is so far removed from what I can realistically conceive... for instance, what would I understand to be His ways at the end of such an exercise? No way to tell.
Quote:Feel remorse for the times in your life when you acted wrongly?
More than I already do? Simply because some version of Abraham's God turned out to actually exist?
Do you think that makes sense? I sure do not.
Quote:...Or would you feel angry and continue on hating the idea of God (even after learning He actually is good), hating the idea of having to "answer" to a higher being, etc?
God and the idea of God are different things - at least according to the scenario that you propose.
Do you truly think that it includes the idea of having to answer to such a God? That is a direct contradiction IMO.
The whole exercise suffers from a lack of grounding on realistic parameters, and therefore it is difficult to give a reliable answer to you.
Morituri Delendi!
