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Re: Image comments for If God is omnipotent and knows what we will do before he created us, how can we
Posted by: Mrkim
Date: 06/01/2011 03:55PM
Ah yes, but ... if all evil is man made, and given that man, or at least 90% or so of humanity ascribes to the concept of "god" as the accepted creator of man, then such a god would also be the same creator of these evil humans. This can be further extrapolated to mean that god is also the creator of evil. It seems much more than curious that an all knowing, all loving and all powerful god would also be the creator of the same evils that would then dog his creation in the most heinous of ways throughout all of known humanity. Or, such a god has a truly wicked sense of humor and just enjoys the ensuing show that unfolds as his creations go about the odd actions of procreating and killing one another.

Once one discards the concept of faith that a god exists, the rest of the construct of existence of a god like entity and all the inherently fantastical stories and revelations in theological texts dissolve pretty simply through the application of pure logic and reason.

To prove the above point requires nothing more than limiting ones intellectual inspection of the concept of god to what is logical, and hence provable or improvable through the defining eye of the application of logic alone, absent of the application of faith as validation of it.

Without using the argument of faith as a basis for belief in the possibility of the following, how could one explain a talking snake, a talking bush, an individuals ability to part a sea, or arise from the dead? Without the use of faith as a mainstay in the possibility of such things or actions, the laws of probability of such phenomenon or actions having occurred soon end up as fanciful at best.

While books for children, and indeed fictional texts as well are commonly filled with such stretches of the imagination, people in general place no significance on their validity or logical plausibility. Curiously however, the bulk of humanity does exactly that with religious texts filled with similar flights of fancy, and when asked why, simply reply .... "You would have to have faith to understand".

Once reason and logic are bypassed in favor of faith, all manner of illogical or improbable things can be accepted as possible. By contrast, if faith in such possibilities is left out of the equation and logical possibilities and probabilities are used as parameters of what can or could happen, the constucts of all religion/theology then fall into the realm of the implausible.

If someone were capable of explaining the existence of a god without utilizing faith in the improbable or unprovable as the basis for acceptance of such a belief, that would then be a formidable conversation to hold winking smiley

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