(January 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm)JohnDG Wrote: This is simpler, why are children be starved, raped, annihilated and subjected to monsterous disease's when there is a All knowing, All "loving" and All seeing god. Omnicient god was never even a possibility unless he is cruel and sadistic.
True, although a God could want balance and not a perfect world if that somewhat makes sense? (Even though it doesn't)
But the traits humans have given to god are impossible and extremely contradictory e.g. all-loving as in your example, it merely feels like humans have created a god as a projection of what we really want. As if reality is boring and we need to spice it up and give a sort of meaning for our existence.
I don't understand how any human could give god any attribute if we aren't supposed to understand him, isn't that what theists claim? That we can never understand him?
Yet they continue to tell me that god is this and god is that, constantly applying human emotion to something that would be unable to have these traits if that being were to be omnipotent and omniscient.
