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RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are!
April 30, 2012 at 11:32 pm
(April 30, 2012 at 11:20 pm)Matt231 Wrote: How has he earned your worship? What has he done for YOU?

Maybe Satan is 100% omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Would he also deserve your worship? Or maybe God is all those things but also evil. He has done nothing to EARN worship.

Good questions. I can't go too much into the first one without going on a long "personal testimony" kind of thing, which I believe is against forum policy and never does much to help most people anyway. I can always PM that though if you really want.

Essentially, though, I believe that He created the Universe. I would say that life is pretty sweet overall. I'm usually happy, and this meatsack body seems to do what I want most of the time. If a person is willing to assume that there is a God and He's the architect responsible for all these things, it seems that He HAS earned my worship.

On the second point, most Biblical scholars agree that Satan is in fact not all powerful or omnipresent. But IF he was, and IF he wasn't evil, I'd worship him too, assuming I could make the same assumptions about him that I made for God in the paragraphs above.

If God was evil, I definitely wouldn't worship Him. Not unless He somehow literally forced me to. Given worship is a form of respect and homage, I would feel no desire to worship some all powerful jerk.

I would ask you this: What would some hypothetical God have to do for you to earn your worship? I get the feeling here that you and I have very different ideas of what kind of being God is (or is supposed to / idealized to be.)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."
-- Galileo Galilei
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RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Matt231 - April 28, 2012 at 10:29 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 4:19 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Drich - April 29, 2012 at 9:02 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Drich - April 29, 2012 at 11:49 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by genkaus - April 30, 2012 at 12:06 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Drich - April 30, 2012 at 10:08 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by genkaus - April 30, 2012 at 11:47 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Cinjin - April 29, 2012 at 10:22 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Drich - April 29, 2012 at 8:36 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 9:10 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 9:20 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 9:36 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Tobie - April 29, 2012 at 9:40 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 9:43 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 9:49 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:02 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:15 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:37 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:41 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:43 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 10:49 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 11:11 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 29, 2012 at 11:22 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Drich - April 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Ryft - April 29, 2012 at 9:31 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Matt231 - April 30, 2012 at 10:56 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Matt231 - April 30, 2012 at 11:20 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Black Chakram - April 30, 2012 at 11:32 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Matt231 - April 30, 2012 at 11:46 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Matt231 - April 30, 2012 at 11:30 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Ryft - April 30, 2012 at 5:00 am
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by C Rod - April 30, 2012 at 8:56 pm
RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are! - by Ryft - May 10, 2012 at 10:24 am

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