Who or more precisely what is God?
According to common understanding he is an omnipotent and omniscient being. He is all powerful and all knowing. He has prior knowledge to everything to come and everything that has ever been. He has the power to shape everything to the way he likes and he knows the outcome of every single change he has ever made or will make.
With all this power and foresight why does he not intervene or prevent wars, rapes, murders, natural disasters and innocent deaths?
Because has given man free will to choose his own destiny.
Hmm, is it me or do these two statements contradict each other?
If God is omniscient then he surely already knows 100% what each individual or group is destined to do. So if a person is going to grow up to raise an army and rampage through the world slaughtering indiscriminately then God is already aware of this before the person is born. In fact he knew this at the moment he created the world. So with his omnipotent powers he could alter this persons destiny to suit Gods own will if he was not happy with the outcome he already knows will occur.
If man truly has free will, then God is unaware of which option the person will choose. He may be aware of the choices available, but not the choice that will be taken.
In this case God can not be Omniscient.
So if God is omniscient then there is no point complaining about the evils in the world because God must know about them and actively sanction them by his very Omniscient nature.
God must not dislike Gays, as he created man in the knowledge that he would experiment with his sexuality and thus at some point be aware that a section of his creation would choose the path of Homosexuality. If God did not want this then he could have deigned the relevant parts so that they could not possibly fit together or give pleasure. Sort of a square peg and round hole scenario.
The people who claim to have killed in Gods name must be telling the truth no matter how heinous the crime as God knew it would be done centuries, even millennia, before any of those involved were born.
You have no choice, the universe was made in such a way that everything you do must necessarily happen
And so on…
If man is free to choose his destiny then God is little more than an observer of his creation. If he is not omniscient then he could not possible omnipotent either.
He can not possible be all powerful, if he can not see what your next choice will be.
So if you believe we have free will you may as well resign yourself to the fact that God is powerless to intervene so prayer is, well just the same as talking to yourself, which is generally regarded as a form of madness.
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I do not know how many times I have used this very same line of thought against mormons who come knocking on my door. Many times they end up leaving my house questioning their own beliefs. I figure that if they are there to change my beliefs, I have every right to defend my position and maybe open their eyes at the same time.
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