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<blockquote data-quote="Blindwatchmaker" data-source="post: 75798425" data-attributes="member: 433382"><p>With respect, this is extremely silly.</p><p>Your god is supposed to have infinite powers (within what is logically possible).</p><p>I am asked to believe in one breath that he knows the number of hairs on every persons head, and in the next that he is incapable of manipulating the physical world in order to prevent people inflicting huge suffering on others and in the next that he can organise a parking space right outside the food store if you just pray hard enough.</p><p></p><p>Can you see why this concept of an omniscient omnipotent being is not coherent?</p><p>It's like his properties and limitations bend and flex to suit whatever narrative is being justified.</p><p></p><p>If God is all-powerful it would be trivially easy for him to prevent suffering.</p><p>You could even remove the free will element entirely from the conversation by limiting it to childhood leukaemia or trees falling on animals in the forest leaving them to die slow painful deaths.</p><p>God we are told, can cure the sick, part oceans and raise the dead, but when the conversation turns to awkward topics, suddenly he has all these limitations and reasons why he can't help.</p><p></p><p>I don't think it's consistent at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blindwatchmaker, post: 75798425, member: 433382"] With respect, this is extremely silly. Your god is supposed to have infinite powers (within what is logically possible). I am asked to believe in one breath that he knows the number of hairs on every persons head, and in the next that he is incapable of manipulating the physical world in order to prevent people inflicting huge suffering on others and in the next that he can organise a parking space right outside the food store if you just pray hard enough. Can you see why this concept of an omniscient omnipotent being is not coherent? It's like his properties and limitations bend and flex to suit whatever narrative is being justified. If God is all-powerful it would be trivially easy for him to prevent suffering. You could even remove the free will element entirely from the conversation by limiting it to childhood leukaemia or trees falling on animals in the forest leaving them to die slow painful deaths. God we are told, can cure the sick, part oceans and raise the dead, but when the conversation turns to awkward topics, suddenly he has all these limitations and reasons why he can't help. I don't think it's consistent at all. [/QUOTE]
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