(April 30, 2012 at 11:32 pm)Black Chakram Wrote: 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.No thank you.
Quote: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.Sure, life is great. I guess all the people currently suffering feel the same way.

Quote: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.How do you KNOW that God is good and Satan is evil? You could easily be wrong. You can't worship someone because they are good without truly knowing who is responsible for the good.
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.
Quote: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 wouldn't worship him. If he is the kind, perfect being you believe he is, then why does he need my worship? He should be satisfied knowing that he created the universe and gave me life.