RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 23, 2021 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2021 at 5:12 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 23, 2021 at 3:36 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(August 23, 2021 at 3:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But there’s no discord in that story, just poor old Job being tortured for no good reason.Yeah sorry, I was under the impression "discord" could also mean the same thing as "ruination", but I looked it up on Google, and it turns out I was wrong. But what about the story of Jesus? Jesus and the religious authorities of His time, were in a state of discord between each other.
Boru
Assuming for the moment that the Jesus story is factual (it isn’t), what ‘greater good’ was achieved by it? We’re always being told that Jesus died for our sins. If that’s so, he could have written a manifesto and thrown himself under the next passing oxcart - the results would have been the same.
So, if God created this discord, he didn’t manage to achieve any greater good by doing so, and we’re left with the conclusion that God creates discord for its own sake. That’s kinda nutty. You should expect better from your Supreme Being.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson