Which of the 3000 gods are you referring to?
Religion does not and never made any logical sense.
(this does not mean it does not have any / also positive use for societies)
Starts with:
“Not to get into a debate.”Continues with:
" If God is so omnipotent"…🤪
Well, that’s what a rhetorical question is. You’re making a statement, not a query, but the best way to couch your statement happens to be with a question mark at the end of it. I’m not sure this is the best example of one, but at least they made an attempt to label it as such.
To be omnipotent first need to exist. If don’t exist then anything after is nonsense, therefore can be portrayed as wild as author’s imagination is.
Or maybe it’s the other way round: We have emotions because God has emotions (not to get into a debate)
You posit an unproven and unprovable character as fact and then retreat? Not very fair on your part.
So how do you want to define ‘fact’?
Something verifiable which comports with reality.
Present evidence of your god in a way that satisfies the conditions in https://tiny.cc/SD_proof and I will probably believe it.
So this has no relation to what I have written before.
So you now have permission to leave.No arguments like all believers. Go cry to church, then.
Which got me to thinking the other day, after the third day of crazy thunderstorms and tornado warnings in a row, if we were created in god’s image, then what if god’s a moron? (I’m agnostic I just like thinking about these things)
I’ve been agnostic ever since I heard it 30 years ago but I’m starting to lean back toward atheist because shit’s getting ridiculous.
Humans are created in his image. Morons aren’t.
/s
If god is Jewish what did he use to circumcise himself?
Who can personify the ultimate? Be wary of those who claim the authority to describe it as such…
Because we apply human traits to God, and because being emotionless doesn’t necessarily indicate being higher than someone else.
In most traditions, God is incomprehensible to humans. Polytheistic religions break God down into multiple Gods or Goddesses with different characteristics, which is how they explain all of the events assigned to God. Lightning happens because of Zeus, etc.
For religions that don’t break God down into different aspects, it’s one of those things that kinda justifies itself. Bad things are happening so God is mad, if God is mad he has to have a good reason because he’s omnipotent. That’s where the faith part comes in.
Abrahamic religions especially have a father/child or teacher/student dynamic between God and humans. A major negative of the Fall of Man was that we had separated ourselves from God and could no longer could wander the Garden of Eden.
The implication is that God knows more than us, and to have faith that he acts for the good of humanity even if we don’t understand in our limited knowledge.
We like to think God cares about us.
It’s all fictional, it can be whatever you want
Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?
Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.
Genesis 1:27
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.“
Any omnipotent being must be capable of feeling emotions, otherwise that would be a thing they can’t do, making them not omnipotent.
Because god is a delusion used as a means of social control and as an excuse for violence.
I was raised Hindu and omg this is so evident. Dharma and karma are essential in the faith. Dharma outlines your roles and responsibilities in life. Basically, you’re born poor because of your past karma. You deserve to be poor. So don’t overstep your boundaries and stay in your lane. And let the rich and powerful walk all over you because they are more deserving.
Man, amazing how a lot of religions align with letting the rich be douchebags.
Because we created god in our image
There is no god.
not what was asked
But it is a possible solution to the postulated contradiction and thereby a valid answer.
There is no god so it doesn’t have feelings. Our fictional stories about god project human things like feelings onto that fictional character.
Well, the obvious answer is: if God is so much greater than humans, how would we know? If you’re talking about the Hebrew god from the Christian Bible / Jewish Scriptures, you’re seeing the depiction of God as told through the lens of humans, who often try to be telling other humans about god using the limited vocabulary and imagery available.
God is depicted as being powerful enough that a human not being fully aligned with God but being in God’s presence would lead to annihilation, just like a human approaching the sun would be destroyed — not because the sun was angry, just because of its nature compared to ours.
On the flip side of that, for the biblical God, humans are made in God’s image, which means the species as a whole would reflect God’s character (including the bit about wanting to be the ones fully in control).
