Quote:1) God appears to you. You are 100% sure this is the real, one true God.
A) He instructs you to kill your friends and family. He doesn't say why. Will you do it?
I would not do it. Even if my family were going to destroy the world, there is no reason except cruelty, for a god to ask one of the members of that family to kill everyone. He could poof everyone away or change their futures or order someone less emotionally invested to kill my family. Even if it was the real god, the request would just prove that god is an asshole.
Quote:B) Christians: he is Allah. Yahweh is fictional. Allah is just as described in the Quran.
Non-christians: he is Yahweh. He is just as described in the bible.
Will you worship this God?
No, I will not.
Quote:2) You have just replaced God. You're in full control of everything, and have unlimited power. You can ensure any changes you make have no negative consequences.
A) Would you put an end to the suffering in the world?
If I was god, I wouldn't want to rule or be worshipped; in fact, I would probably encourage people to not worship anything but to think for themselves. To make the world a better place, I would fix human brains so there aren't any mental illnesses. There would be no sociopaths or psychopaths. Adults would no longer have any desire to have sex with children either. Humans would have more automatic empathy for one another.
Men and women would have to desire a pregnancy to be fertile. That would lower the population so that there isn't as much a burden on the planet's resources. Women would not be smaller and weaker than men. Women's equal size and strength, along with increased empathy would probably prevent rapes from happening. Because I am god, I might make it so that a person could choose their own sex when they reached a certain age.
Humans would still be able to make their own decisions in their lives but they would be less inclined to hurt one another and more inclined to cooperate.
Satan wouldn't exist because I wouldn't invent him.
Maybe once humans advanced to a certain point, I would show myself but not because I wanted worship. Humans might like to know if there is other life in the universe and I guess a god like being would be considered life.
