RE: A good argument for God's existence (long but worth it)
September 18, 2017 at 5:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2017 at 6:14 am by Aroura.)
Look, I get it. God is so great, we cannot comprehend him and so cannot apply our puny definitions of good and evil to him.
But that just makes evil meaningless the other direction as well. If killing innocent babies in a mass flood isn't evil for god, and god is great, then why is it evil for us to do something similar? Should we not aspire to be more perfect, more like god?
And this is where you argument falls flat. If our definition of evil does not apply to god, then all of it becomes meaningless.
Your notion of god is just an alien, so foreign we cannot understand it. Only to be worshiped to avoid pain and punishment.
If the idea is that god is loving, that is a human idea, with human concepts behind it. If god cannot fit our definitions of loving, not evil, etc, then he is simply an alien monster possibly without any sort of notion of human ideas like love or evil, nor any way to understand them, much like I cannot know what a shark feels when it senses prey with its electrical receptors. I simply don't have anything close enough to reference it.
Personally it seems that you and other god bothered are simply projecting your own feelings out into the void.
But that just makes evil meaningless the other direction as well. If killing innocent babies in a mass flood isn't evil for god, and god is great, then why is it evil for us to do something similar? Should we not aspire to be more perfect, more like god?
And this is where you argument falls flat. If our definition of evil does not apply to god, then all of it becomes meaningless.
Your notion of god is just an alien, so foreign we cannot understand it. Only to be worshiped to avoid pain and punishment.
If the idea is that god is loving, that is a human idea, with human concepts behind it. If god cannot fit our definitions of loving, not evil, etc, then he is simply an alien monster possibly without any sort of notion of human ideas like love or evil, nor any way to understand them, much like I cannot know what a shark feels when it senses prey with its electrical receptors. I simply don't have anything close enough to reference it.
Personally it seems that you and other god bothered are simply projecting your own feelings out into the void.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
