RE: [split] Are Questions About God Important?
December 1, 2023 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2023 at 12:25 am by Harry Haller.)
(November 30, 2023 at 6:34 pm)Confused-by-christianity Wrote:(November 28, 2023 at 11:54 pm)Harry Haller Wrote: Why should there be questions about "God" in the first place? If you accept the premise that "God" is the perfect, omnipotent, creator of the Universe, then why should important questions about what God is and what God wants exist? It seems that it should be self-evident and non-refutable.
Instead of this perfect clarity, we have no practical evidence of existence and thousands of variations on the message.
Id really not expect it to be self evident.
an allperfect, allpowerful, allfather being - that clearly visible and understandable with my eyes??
I think you'd have to grow a lot to make sense of a being like that.
In fact, I think that's what this life and eternity is about - revelation, growth, harmonisation, revelation, growth, harmonisation and so on ....
That makes things important beyond just my say so.
I would expect that the omnitpotent and all powerful being that created me and everything else I know could also devise a method using these materials to clearly communicate any messages he wanted to deliver to me in a clear and self-evident manner.
It is easy to excuse that we would need to grow to understand... but that premise is easily defeated with the notion that we were created by him the way he wanted us to be.
He either wanted us to be confused and unsure of his existence or he is a poor designer or he doesn't exist at all and Man is just trying to ascribe powers onto an imaginary being.