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Whether he created evil, or allows it to exist, doesn't matter. It is up to us to make choices.
The implication being that yahweh is not in fact omniscient and has a tendency to fail to communicate with that which it is alleged to have created.
Seems like this god just cannot get it's creation to cooperate, wipe it out with a flood or try a different human form, nothing seems to work.
Originally posted by wayaboveitall
Theres a saying in the bible...'Does the clay ask of the potter, why did you make me so?'
Originally posted by wayaboveitall
Its one thing to beleive a divine intelligence created the world, quite another to personify it and attribute our mentality or reasoning to it.
This is all we can do because we are human. How can he, knowing how we are, expect us to do anything different than that?
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
I am going to post a couple facts about the bible
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
it was voted on that right they sat around and voted on which books to keep and which ones to toss to the side.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree.
Originally posted by wayaboveitall
'He' is a personification right there. How do you know that 'He' knows how we are, or what 'He' expects or dosent? Its all human perspective.
What you beleive of God or what you call it, God may be oblivious
for all anyone knows.
'He' is what people imagine, Nothing more. Who can know god for themselves, rather than through religion or heresay?
Again, I agree.
Originally posted by wayaboveitall
Your upbringing in this regard shapes your beleifs and your perspective.
Again, I am with you.
Originally posted by wayaboveitall
Some beleive Jesus was a personification of God, but thats a given beleif, not nessarily mine. But who knows, I wasn't there.
Does it matter if I believe in George Washington or other historical figures without seeing, hearing, or touching them?