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Why did God create the universe?

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RE: Why did God create the universe?

November 11, 2013 at 3:10 am

(November 11, 2013 at 3:01 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Well he does a legions of people on earth mindlessly worshiping and praising him, what kind of perfect being would not enjoy that. Maybe he gets off on making people suffer in the lake of fire.

That's exactly right: GC has now posited a series of actions that, if committed by any other being, he would find to be unacceptably arrogant, self aggrandizing and cruel. Not that he'll see it that way, of course. Rolleyes

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