RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2024 at 5:07 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(January 8, 2024 at 4:20 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote:(January 8, 2024 at 2:49 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: There are plenty of Christians williing to assert that their God created logic and is therefore not bound by it. If that God exists, logic is just ihis whim.
If god turned out to be real, I'd assume that scriptures (and theists themselves) got many, many, many, many things wrong about god
For starters, I'd assume that the real god is much, much weaker than theists like to believe their god is
I'd be pretty confident that any real-life god cannot create a married bachelor
Only the god in theists' imaginations can do absurd things like that, and defy logic on whim
If God created the universe, I’m fairly confident that he could - as mentioned before - simply change the meaning of ‘bachelor’. JRR Tolkien (not remotely godlike) changed the meaning of countless words and invented new ones. It’s not that difficult.
But even that probably wouldn’t be necessary, situationally speaking. Suppose Joe, a married man, is having it off with a woman to whom his isn’t married and who doesn’t know that he has a wife. To his wife, Joe is married. To his girlfriend, Joe is a bachelor. Joe is, therefore, a married bachelor.
Kindly call me ‘God’.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson