(February 20, 2018 at 5:16 am)Banned Wrote:(February 18, 2018 at 7:53 am)Cyberman Wrote: Which is the more convincing - the god that shows up with the potential to be falsified, or the god that never shows up and it's everyone else's fault?
What about the God who used to be around, but was betrayed by those who were supposed to be loyal?
What reality did Cain choose when he killed his brother Able?
Was Cain entitled to have a view? Yes.
Was the murderer given protection from God, from revenge killings?
Strangely yes. That is strange. What was God thinking? Or was Cain to be given a complete chance to repent?
Or was it a punishment by making him live with his hideous past?
The same issues came up when Lucifer started a rebellion in heaven. God spared him.
Stories about gods =/= gods.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'