A reason why god doesn’t existence
15 Jun '08 20:44Originally posted by FabianFnasOkay. There it is. As you said, you have made up you mind. It's up to me to change your mind. I have to come up with a reason why God was justified in killing off everything except 8 people and 2 of every kind of animal so compelling that you would be immediately converted, or else I'm just wasting our time.
Okay, the reason why I don't want to fall into the questions and counterquestions game is that (and you guessed it) my view has nothing to do with it. My mind is made up, I know the answer, *my* answer. (What is *your* answer?)
My question to you is how you can put the two postulates (1) "God is good" and (2) "God killed nearly all of humanity in one g ...[text shortened]... illed nearly all humanity in one go in the great flooding, because... (your answer here)"
That's funny. If such an argument exists I sure ain't the one that thought of it.
You're an atheist, right? So the whole thing is just a bunch of hewie to you anyway. So I need a bit of help. All you gotta do is use your imagination. You've read science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Philip Jose Farmer, and the like. I have. It's fun to explore the imagination.
Well, just imagine that there is a being called God that possesses all the characteristics of an eternal, all powerful, all knowing, and what all kind of being. I can't do it. Who can fathom such a being? Well, that's who God is. That's what He is.
So, this being creates a universe and a world and populates it with beings like Himself. Are you with me so far? Now these creatures decided they are gonna do what ever they want to do without regard for the one that created them. They kill each other. They steal. They lie. They cheat. Pretty soon it gets so bad that the creator has to step in and do something to stop the chaos before they destroy themselves completely. Now from the perspective of the created beings this seems unfair. But from the perspective of the creator things look a bit different. It's hard to imagine how it appears to the creator considering the created are not in possession of the same qualities and attributes as the one that created them. But nevertheless they had been warned repeatedly for over a hundred years that it was going to rain hard.
They didn't listen. They laughed and scoffed. The creator regretted He had even created them. The creator knew in His omniscience that He was the life giver, and that without Him there was no life. He wanted to give those He created eternal life, but they were more interested in going their own way than listen to the one that knew what was best for them. As a matter of fact those beings thoughts, which the creator knew, became down right evil all the time. Everyone of them. And what was even worse than all that was that there were other beings called angles, that the creator had made, that had intermingled with the earth bound beings which only polluted the peoples blood lines as well.
It was a mess. What was the creator to do? The only thing He could do! Find someone undefiled that the creator knew trusted Him. And so the creator wiped the slate clean. But He promised He would never do it again the same way. Next time it will be with fire.
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