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Recent content by Enginehead

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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Maybe analogy is not supposed to be taken literally, and I'm not 100% convinced of the Bible's word because it's written by humans, and thus, be subjected to contextual errors and translation mistakes?
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Ah, I see. My hypothesis is that God wants us to reach a higher level of spirituality. At the moment it makes sense to me:
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Well, need may not always equate to nature, and vice versa. Like someone can love to eat chocolate, but they can still live without it. Me too, and that's why I keep probing until I reach a logically-consistent answer. Good point.
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Not really. We can choose whether to give in to our nature/inclination or to go against it, but God thinks that creating is the right way to go, so He went in with it. Like my previous analogy of the introverted person, he/she can decide to continue being so or to change it.
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Well, it's in my nature to question and seek to know an answer which makes logical sense, which I've figured out and put in an earlier post in the thread.
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Actually, I think loving Him is simple, but it's people who make loving God seem complicated. Also, without free will, there's no love, because love cannot be forced.
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Thanks for your explanation. It's a good answer, actually. Change is the only constant, and since God is good, I suppose it is right that it's his nature to create. For your last sentence, how would you know? He might inform you at another time.
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    I think he meant to say that it's the law of nature. For example, the law of cause-and-effect applies. There's no reason why, it's just the way it is. Another analogy would be that a person may be naturally introverted, but it's not because of childhood trauma or fear of speaking up, it's simply...
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    Afterlife Analogy

    Very good analogy, and very humorously-written as well. Where did you hear this joke from, or did you create this yourself?
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    I got it all figured out. I'm an omnist (I believe in all religions partially), and I believe that every existing religion has got a portion of the truth correct, but not the whole truth yet. When the word is being passed from person-to-person, there is prone to be misunderstanding and...
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Ok, I am an omnist, and I am here in this forum to get answers. Who knows, in a parallel universe there may be pink unicorns after all. I'm skeptical but I'm not 100% against the possibility of it. I think it would have helped if you stated your stance from the beginning. I'm sorry for being...
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Why would answers in Genesis not give very good answers? No, I'm not. In fact I think you're the one who's not taking my question seriously and going in various irrelevant tangents and trying to confuse me from the original question with strawmen. I really don't know where you are coming from if...
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    I don't get your point. AiG (assuming you meant American International Group) is completely irrelevant to my question. However, you're saying that my point is incorrect, not irrelevant. That's a strawman; incorrect and irrelevant are completely different matters. So you're trying to claim that...
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    Well, I read this from Gotquestions, regarding the question "Does God need us?", and I found this:
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    Why did God create everything in the beginning?

    I was thinking of that, but it's not the only thing that I am thinking of. He's the Almighty, I'm sure He doesn't need us and doesn't need our companionship either, so I also want to know His rationale behind doing something for a reason that I cannot figure out. Hence He didn't create out of...