Omnipresent, omnipotent and omni-what-not, yet He only sends messengers. Is He afraid of the humans?
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Maybe you are right.\nImagine if he comes in front of us, he will have no answers to our question. He will have no solutions to our problems.\n\nThats why he sends messengers.
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he wouldnt say anything, he is a fictional charecter made up by humans to encourage people not to commit crime or do bad things to other humans, and its worked, i mean lots of people do actually believe in it! personally i think its a bit like father christmas only if ur nauty u go to hell if ur nice u go to heaven! and god is a man with a long white beard! what a load of rubbish!
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That's a good question, and further to that, what is he doing now -- other than willingly watching the world go to ruin?  (And please don't start on that stuff about the fulfillment of prophecy, etc.)
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Well, God has a plan. They asked to be put into the herd of swine. Jesus allowed it. See the point? The demons couldn't even make a move without His very approval. The question misses the overall view. They could do nothing apart from His power. And they knew it. Jesus was demonstrating His power over the very forces of Hell. They will "get theirs" in due time, so to speak.
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Does that primitive fairy tale sound right to you?  For example why wouldn't Satan use his powers to make Hell really nice so that people wanted to go to Hell?  He could gain power by being nice.  The whole good and evil nonsense in the Bible is really very silly if you actually analyze it.
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hmmm. interesting question. \n\nmaybe, i guess i am afraid of the gods that dont exist. i am afraid of his followers stoning me to death for not believing in him. \n\nbut, in the meantime, while i am not being persecuted, but only prejudiced, i am not afraid. i am only angry, and my free voice allows me to fight back.
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God says that he IS the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. By his own Word, he had a beginning. It is simply not for us to understand. We, as humans, are limited in our knowledge. God is omnipotent.
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Interesting.\n\nI agree with you whole heartedly as an atheist myself.\n\nBut, to defend the Xtian mindset a little (just for the sport of it):\n\nGod is omniscient: all knowing.  So that means He knows what you, I, and every other scholar in the world knows.  So, He just leaches off of our knowledge.  \n\nConsidering that the Xtian God is not on a linear timeline, He is omni-present, He knew the stuff we know now, and everything else that has ever been learned in the past or will be learned in the future.  \n\nSo, He knew everything at the same time as knowing nothing!\n\nI think I just gave myself a headache.
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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Cain was concerned with the people that the Elohim created BEFORE the christian god created Adam and Eve.\n\nHeck.  I would be concerned and scared too if I were being sent out into a world among people I don't know after my parents isolated me from everything else.\n\n=======================\n\nThe following is an Article published six or seven years ago in Green Egg.\n\n*We Are the Other People*\n\nby Oberon (Otter) Zell\n\n"Ding-dong!" goes the doorbell. Is it Avon calling? Or perhaps Ed McMahon with my three million dollars? No, it's Yahweh's Witlesses again, just wanting to have a nice little chat about the Bible... Boy, did they ever come to the wrong house! So we invite them in: "Enter freely and of your own will..." (Hey, it's Sunday morning, nothing much going on, why not have a little entertainment?) Diane and I amuse ourselves watching their expressions as they check out the living room: great horned owl on the back of my chair; ceremonial masks and medicine skulls of dragons and unicorns on the wall; crystals, wands, staffs, swords; lots of Goddess figures and several altars; boa constrictors draped in amorous embrace over the elkhorn; white doves sitting in the hanging planters; cats and weasels underfoot; iron dragon snorting steam atop the wood stove; posters and paintings of wizards and dinosaurs and witchy women, some proudly naked; sculptures of mythological beasties and lots more dinosaurs; warp six on the star-filled viewscreen of my computer; a five-foot model of the USS Enterprise and the skeleton of a plesiosaur hanging from the ceiling; very, very many books, most of them dealing with obviously weird subjects... To say nothing of the great horned owl perched on the back of my chair and the Unicorn grazing in the front yard. You know; early Addams Family decor. And then, of course, it being late in the morning, you can expect Morning Glory to come wandering out naked, looking for her wake-up cup of tea. Morning Glory naked is a truly impressive sight, and the Witlesses look as if she'd set titties on stun as they stand immobilised, hands clasped over their genitals. With the stage set and all the actors in place, the show is ready to begin.\n\nTheir mission, of course, is to save our heathen souls by turning us on to "The Word of the Lord"- their Bible. I guess they figure some of us just haven't heard about it yet, and we're all eagerly awaiting their joyous tidings of personal salvation through giving our rational faculties to Jesus. Every time they come around, I look forward to trying out a new riposte. Sure, it may be cruel and sadistic of me, but hey, I didn't call them up and ask them to come over; they entered at their own risk! This time should be pretty good. After letting them run off their basic rap while lovely Morning Glory serves us all hot herb tea, I innocently remark: "But none of that applies to us. We have no need for salvation because we don't have original sin. We are the Other People."\n\n"Hunh? What?" they reply eloquently. It's clear they've never heard this one before. "\n\nRight," I say. "It's all in your Bible." And I proceed to tell them the story, using their own book for reference: (Genesis 1:26) The [Elohim] said, "Let us make humanity in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth." Elohim is a plural word, including male and female, and should properly be translated "Gods" or "Pantheon." (1: 27) The Gods created humanity in the image of themselves, In the image of the Gods they created them, Male and female they created them. (1:28) The Gods blessed them, saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of he
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A lot of Christians talk about Christ's death fulfilling some sort of prophecy. Apparently Christians are unaware of the concept of omnipotence, which would allow "God" to do anything he wanted to do, including solve whatever the problem was without sacrificing his son, but I digress...
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You are assuming that God is limited to what we think of Him.  That is wrong.  God could not do anything that will limit his abilities, including what you ask.\n\nRead this for further clarification:\n\nGod and Omnipotence\nThe paradox of the stone, as presented by Wade Savage:\n1. Either God can create a stone that God cannot lift, or God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift – there are no other possibilities. \n2. If God can create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., lift that stone). \n3. If God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., create that stone). \n4. From the combination of 1, 2 and 3, it follows that there is at least one thing that God cannot do. \n5. If God is omnipotent, then God can do anything. \n6. Therefore, God is not omnipotent. \n\nWhat this argument apparently shows is that omnipotence is impossible (or, that the notion of omnipotence is incoherent). Thus, God cannot be omnipotent (as nothing can be).\n\nSuggested solutions to the paradox St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):\nAquinas defines as “absolutely impossible” any thing where the “predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject” (his example: “man is an ***” (in the non-metaphorical sense)). With this in mind:\nWhatever implies contradiction does not come within the scope of divine omnipotence, because it cannot have the aspect of possibility. Hence it is more appropriate to say that such things cannot be done, than that God cannot do them.\n\nThat is, to be omnipotent involves being able to do all things that are possible. For example, it is not considered a limit to my powers that I cannot draw a square circle. That’s impossible, so it’s no failing that I can’t do it – it cannot be done.\n\nBUT: surely I can make a thing that is too heavy for me to lift, so that task is not impossible, so if God can’t do it, that really is a limit to his power.\n\nGeorge Mavrodes (1926-):\nMavrodes responds that although “a stone too heavy for Simon Cushing to lift” is not a contradictory notion, “a stone too heavy for an omnipotent being to lift” is a contradictory notion.\nMavrodes’s argument in full:\n1. Either God is omnipotent or he is not. \n2. If God is not omnipotent, then the fact that he cannot do something (either make or lift the stone) is unsurprising. \n3. If God is omnipotent, then, by definition, there necessarily cannot be a stone that is too heavy for him to lift (otherwise he would not be omnipotent). \n4. If there necessarily cannot be such a stone, then it is an impossibility. \n5. By Aquinas’s reasoning, even an omnipotent being cannot perform impossibilities. \n6. Therefore, by definition, inability to create a stone too heavy for one to lift is no barrier to being omnipotent. (In fact, only non-omnipotent beings can create objects too heavy for themselves to lift.) \n\nBUT: both Aquinas and Mavrodes assume that God cannot do impossible things. Is this right? Descartes, for one, thought not. Descartes believed God could make 2+2=5. Why? Because otherwise you are suggesting that God is bound by the laws of logic. But if God created the laws of logic, why should he be bound by them? Couldn’t he have made them differently?\n\nHarry Frankfurt:\nHowever, if we assume that God can do impossible things, then God can create a stone too heavy for him to lift (which is supposedly impossible). Furthermore, if he can do that, then he can go one stage further and lift that stone (also impossible – but what’s the difference between doing one impossible thing and doing two?) \nBUT: doesn’t that mean that the stone he created was not a stone too heavy for him to lift, and that we’re back to the situation of him being unable to create such a stone? Not according to Frankfurt:\nIf an omnipotent being can do what is logically impossible, then he can not only create situations which he canno
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one cant, at least THIS one cant.  When something terrible happens and you question gods "wisdom" a religious person will most often come back with god has a plan we just don't know what it is.  Well my point is if there is a god and this god is omnipotent then this god allows all of this terrible stuff to happen.  Now if this god has a plan that lets these things happen FOR WHATEVER REASON then it is not something I would want in my life.  If a person stands idly by and lets pain and suffering befall his fellow man when it is in his/her ability to stop the suffering then they are as much at fault as whatever is causing the suffering.  If a "god" dose the same thing, well its just a perverse sort of thing to put your faith in.
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If God is omnipresent and omnipotent, His coming and going is undetectable.\n\nIt is believed that there is a sort of energy released at the time of death and it can be felt by animals including humans. Telepathic communications are still being studied.\n\nNo body has ever defined God and it is called infinity.\n\nThe energy of life formation and death are felt by a few by careful study and meditation. So in Eastern philosophy death is even predicted.
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:}\nJohn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.\n\nthe asker seems disappointed that G-d is greater than he can understand.\n\nthere are dumber lesser beast which can be understood even by the asker\n\nTo conclude that G-d doesn't exist because a mortal cant understand him is absurd\n\nor that his nature cannot be what he taught it to be because this mortal cannot explain it.\n\n\nHow very human of us.
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IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION,IT REVEALS THAT THE FACE OF GOD IS AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN IN FULL STRENGTH! MOSES,AFTER SEEING GOD PARTIALLY,HAD TO PUT A VEIL ON HIS FACE BECAUSE IT GLOWED FROM BEING IN GOD'S PRESENCE!-THE PEOPLE WERE FRIGHTENED! NOT ONLY THAT,BUT GOD IS NOT QUITE READY TO BE AT ONE WITH US--NOT YET...HOWEVER,HE DID SEND HIS SON-JESUS-IN HUMAN FORM,SO THAT HE COULD PAVE THE WAY FOR US TO JOIN THE GOD FAMILY!!! WE SHALL BECOME A SON/DAUGHTER OF OUR MAJESTIC FATHER!--YOUR BIBLE IS FULL OF THIS!!! BUT FIRST,SIN/SATAN/THE DEMONS MUST BE ELIMINATED FIRST BEFORE GOD THE FATHER COMES TO EARTH...CHRIST WILL(WITH THOSE WILLING)SUBDUE AND DESTROY EVIL AND EVENTUALLY ALL SIN TO BRING PEACE--REAL PEACE--TO THIS SICK WORLD...THE SPIRIT WORLD IS FAR MORE REAL THAN US "CLAY MODELS" BELIEVE...YOU CAN'T SEE ELECTRICITY...BUT YOU KNOW IT'S THERE--SAME WITH OUR CREATOR....Phantom of Logic
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In the Old Testament he was reactive.  That's cause the people brought that out in him.  In modern times he is not reactive, but neither is he proactive; he's taken a wait-and-see attitude.  Why do you ask?  Are you an atheist looking for an argument?