(August 6, 2018 at 12:03 am)Cecelia Wrote: Theists expect us to believe in something that is, frankly, quite absurd when you really think about it.
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Earth is a 'test'.
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If we assume that this god existed before the universe, and then created it, because it's all knowledgeable, and all powerful, and had options, (so-called freewill), then it knew before hand, just how everything would turn out for ever, (and a day !) and before it set about doing its creating thing.
So as part of its option, it made a universe in which person b, d, g, q, w etc, and whomever else, would fail the test. If the god knew all this, and still went ahead, how then could it call it a test? It knew the result, and made that result happen, by the way it set up everything.
So its a non-test, with absurd rewards and punishments for things turning out the way it chose. Yes, it's absurd.
Magilla.
There are no atheists in terrorist training camps.