SS--- I hear ya! I used to ask my mom what God did in the billions ans billions of years before he created the tangible things he has told us about like angels,stars,planets and so on. I mean what energy is God made up of and how did that energy come about. It gives me a headache thinking about all the possibilities.
PRESCIENCE ?
by Blueblades 12 Replies latest jw friends
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If Ghod knows everything, then that leaves his motives very suspect.
The Christian/Biblical view of Ghod is simply incompatible with the idea of an omnipotent Ghod, because something that knows everything would not have done some of the things Ghod did in the Bible. As a silly example, he could have given all the inhabitants of Soddom & Gomorrah something constructive to do with their time, to prevent their "immorality". Hehehehe. That way he wouldn't have been forced to destroy them with hot sulphur (which is too kinky for my taste, thank you). This is just one of the many contradictions in the Bible, and is a natural result of a book written by a bunch of men separated by centuries in both time and dogma, and as such should only be taken at face value as an interesting, if somewhat vulgar and cruel, historical document...
But then again, the writers of the Bible pictured Ghod as a standard patriarchal male authority figure, which was de rigeur in their time, and mostly in ours too. What is doubly surprising is the fact that women who should know better fervently promote this archetype of the Manly Ghod, and it really fazes me sometimes. Honestly! I've met so many violently Fundamentalist women that it's not even funny anymore, and oddly enough, they are in the LOWEST position in the pecking order. They debase themselves, promoting this ridiculous notion of a "manly man of war" as their Supreme Being.
Are they hunting for a promotion? And, why did this post go so horrifically off-topic?
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Vivamus
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
--- Epicures