(February 14, 2015 at 4:02 am)robvalue Wrote: Could God not have achieved whatever bizarre end he wanted without giving AIDS to babies?
What's his problem anyway? He's perfect, he knows everything, he can do anything, so he makes a stupid planet with some dumb humans on it and sits around judging them for masturbating? Just think what cool stuff you could do instead.
Well, assuming god is an omnipotent and omniscient being, there wouldn't be a way for us to comprehend his actions with reason. Finite minds wouldn't be able to comprehend infinity - they would acknowledge its existence as a concept, but could never fully grasp it. Some of the things he does may appear immoral to humans, because unlike god we don't know the full balance of good and evil that stems from every decision.
The option that I incline to, however, would be that god isn't an entity, like YHWH or Allah which are obviously human constructs, but everything. Synonymous with the universe, the force that pushed everything into existence and further evolved it. All depictions and all the attempts to humanise the concept of god, make it more relatable - religions are faulty and flawed, designed to control people.
This is the point where I'd take my meds, but I don't have any. Derp.
