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Old 04-08-2003, 12:53 PM   #21
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God does not want anything. He just is doing things according to His purpose, just being the God as He is.
If you don't have 'wants' you can't 'do' anything. Think about it.

Doing something implies a change in the status quo. This means that God evidently 'wants' the status quo to be something else. Otherwise it'd be perfectly static.

No 'wants' == no 'purpose' == no 'action'.

Ergo, God is imperfect, and, by definition, he doesn't exist.

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What difference does it make to a "perfect" being, a being who does not lack for anything?
Yup, what difference too does it make if he will send you to hell? Though I do not believe in hell. No need to answer, really.

I actually just have in mind the robot-God relationship, of which I want to ask you, "Is it therefore just for God to chose whomever He will, and that such existence of evil is mere way of showing our glory for not being created as evil?"
Could you answer this too, Jamie, if you don't mind.
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Old 04-08-2003, 01:30 PM   #23
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I actually just have in mind the robot-God relationship, of which I want to ask you, "Is it therefore just for God to chose whomever He will, and that such existence of evil is mere way of showing our glory for not being created as evil?"
I don't think I understand. I do think any talk of "glory" with respect to God is rather silly.
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If you don't have 'wants' you can't 'do' anything. Think about it.
It is not wants, it is our nature that makes us do anything. Some people want sex 5X a day, but when you turn 70 that will just be an illusion. I mean, we do not pick what we want ourselves, it just go into our system. What do you think, does a lesbian really want to have sex with an opposite sex?

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Doing something implies a change in the status quo. This means that God evidently 'wants' the status quo to be something else. Otherwise it'd be perfectly static.
What I mean is that God is actually responsible for your wants, being embedded in your physical being.

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No 'wants' == no 'purpose' == no 'action'.

Ergo, God is imperfect, and, by definition, he doesn't exist.

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Wanting is just an illusion, like free will. When you're a man you want a woman in bed, you cannot chose another man in bed. Unless you have a nature we call, gay.

God did not plan to be God, He just IS!
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Old 04-08-2003, 01:44 PM   #25
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I don't think I understand. I do think any talk of "glory" with respect to God is rather silly.
I actually agree, because the "glory" I speak of is after man's perspective. In that case, whatever God does, it will not even make Him evil or good either. That is, if we speak in God's perspective.

I am late, I would like to stress something but I need to go.....
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i've tried to use the raising of my kids as a way to better understand God's grand scheme and appreciate the value in it. it does not always work out perfectly but i find it helps.
That's a bad analogy, because human parents are far from being either omnipotent or omniscient.
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A man spent 50 years of his life learning to walk on water. Upon showing others what he could do, someone noted, "You could have taken a boat."
Except that being able to walk on water would make it unnecessary to use a boat.
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That's a bad analogy, because human parents are far from being either omnipotent or omniscient.
i can appreciate its limitations, but it still does help me understand some of the dynamics around the relationship.
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