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Laurentius · 09-28-2002, 01:07 PM

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Originally posted by Digital Druid:
I wonder if God's purported omniscience rules out laughing. We laugh at the unexpected (an event,insight, or observation). Say, the boss walks in with shoes hanging around his neck. Now if you are omniscient that won't surprise you, while the rest of us would laugh.
A homorous God boggles my mind in another way too. Since God is purtportedly omniscient, he would know when he is going to laugh *before* he actually laughs! That should kill any impulse to laugh!

Yes.
God's omniscience makes it impossible for God to laugh since humor is usually based on surprise.
God's omnipresence (and general perfection) makes it impossible for God to sense any humor in convention and rigidity since he himself is absolutely stiff.
God's omnipotence makes it futile for God to be endowed with the sense of humor, which is a human feature biologically and evolutionarily determined in order to ensure that man enjoys best chances for survival.

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Jobar · 09-28-2002, 05:57 PM

Poor God.

ishalon · 09-29-2002, 04:09 PM

i thought this would have been said, but if God has a sense of humour, wouldn't he find it mighty funny to tell a bunch of stupid creations they'd enjoy eternal paradise if they worshipped him, then turn around and destroy them?

Bill Snedden · 09-29-2002, 04:14 PM

If there is a Supreme Being who created the universe and all in it, the mere existence of people like Jan Crouch & Benny Hinn serve as irrefutable proof of His Mighty Wit...

Regards,

Bill Snedden

09-29-2002, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Jeremy Pallant:
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I have myself encountered such Christians. Terribly boring people they are too. Hardly a positive advertisement for Christianity.</strong>

Perhaps, but they will always be Conservatives (Repupblicans) and never (?) Catholics.

09-29-2002, 04:30 PM

One has to be extremely clever and witty to write the NT 300 years after the fact and built upon this thesis statement an entire new religion. The 300 year delay was done in Catholic tradition to make sure all 'closet skeletons were buried.'

I should add here that in my opinion religion is man made to serve mankind as 'a means to an end.' This end was known to the mythmakers who where therefore inspired and Gods to the same extent that they could be God.

leonarde · 09-29-2002, 06:21 PM

Amos,
What "closet skeletons" do you have in mind????

Cheers!

09-30-2002, 06:22 AM

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Originally posted by leonarde:
<strong>Amos,
What "closet skeletons" do you have in mind????

Cheers!</strong>

I think those mythmakers were characters like the world has never known since.

Let me add that Jesus was real but any one of us today can have the same experience and be just as real today as Jesus was then. Therefore he said "follow me" and promised that "we will do greater things."

Rather than waiting three hundred years to write about the life of Jesus the entire events were set around a prior date to provide the effect of a genuine historic existence with not quite enough concrete evidence for later generations to pinpoint the actual event in history.

This same is done with saints who were sinner at one time and became saints through the effect of religion.

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09-28-2002, 05:57 PM	#52
Jobar Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: secularcafe.org Posts: 9,525	Poor God.

09-29-2002, 04:09 PM	#53
ishalon Regular Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: From: Posts: 203	i thought this would have been said, but if God has a sense of humour, wouldn't he find it mighty funny to tell a bunch of stupid creations they'd enjoy eternal paradise if they worshipped him, then turn around and destroy them?

09-29-2002, 04:14 PM	#54
Bill Snedden Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,597	If there is a Supreme Being who created the universe and all in it, the mere existence of people like Jan Crouch & Benny Hinn serve as irrefutable proof of His Mighty Wit... Regards, Bill Snedden

09-29-2002, 04:30 PM	#56
Amos Guest Posts: n/a	One has to be extremely clever and witty to write the NT 300 years after the fact and built upon this thesis statement an entire new religion. The 300 year delay was done in Catholic tradition to make sure all 'closet skeletons were buried.' I should add here that in my opinion religion is man made to serve mankind as 'a means to an end.' This end was known to the mythmakers who where therefore inspired and Gods to the same extent that they could be God.

09-29-2002, 06:21 PM	#57
leonarde Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North America Posts: 1,603	Amos, What "closet skeletons" do you have in mind???? Cheers!

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