I'm back, had to be away for awhile, noboby probably missed the fundie. I've been reading this post all the way through and as usual the theme gets left out and I'm as bad about that as anyone else.
This time I'll try to stay on theme at least for a short statement. As for me and most christians God is a superior being or why else would we worship Him. I'm not going to worship anything that I'm an equal to, that would be foolish, I believe it would be quite foolish to worship anything less than an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent being and my reasoning is that only a being that fits that description can make promises and then keep them. Also a being of this magnitude can be creator of an entire universe and all that is in it, a being like this is worthy of worship and not just because of the above description but because of what that description represents. If you were to take away any one of the three then God could be any one/way He chose to be but as long as all three are in place God is bound by them and this is His nature (that is as humans think). God as creator would naturally be outside of His creation and not bound by the natural laws He put into place so that He could have control over it. If God is not outside of His creation then He to would be bound to the same natural laws and not have control over the universe.
With God being omniscient,omnipotent and omnipresent gives Him the authority to establish moral laws/limits and the justice/just standards that go with them and these would be for His created beings not for Himself. So IMO the worship that is given to God and the reason for that worship is evidence that God is a superior being. There is much more to say about the reasons to worship God but they would lead us off topic and I'm trying not to do that yet.
This time I'll try to stay on theme at least for a short statement. As for me and most christians God is a superior being or why else would we worship Him. I'm not going to worship anything that I'm an equal to, that would be foolish, I believe it would be quite foolish to worship anything less than an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent being and my reasoning is that only a being that fits that description can make promises and then keep them. Also a being of this magnitude can be creator of an entire universe and all that is in it, a being like this is worthy of worship and not just because of the above description but because of what that description represents. If you were to take away any one of the three then God could be any one/way He chose to be but as long as all three are in place God is bound by them and this is His nature (that is as humans think). God as creator would naturally be outside of His creation and not bound by the natural laws He put into place so that He could have control over it. If God is not outside of His creation then He to would be bound to the same natural laws and not have control over the universe.
With God being omniscient,omnipotent and omnipresent gives Him the authority to establish moral laws/limits and the justice/just standards that go with them and these would be for His created beings not for Himself. So IMO the worship that is given to God and the reason for that worship is evidence that God is a superior being. There is much more to say about the reasons to worship God but they would lead us off topic and I'm trying not to do that yet.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
