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<blockquote data-quote="jayem" data-source="post: 74360415" data-attributes="member: 8344"><p>Consider this as another thought experiment. An evil and deceptive God would allow love, kindness, happiness, and answered prayers. If everything in life was unrelieved misery, we wouldn’t know anything different. Such a God could have posed Jesus as the redeemer of sin and provider of eternal life. Which would give us hope and keep us as good, submissive sheep while God afflicts us with torment. But it’s a fraud—all part of a deceit to fool us and disguise his true nature. I know a believer would call this blasphemous (and depressing.) But it’s an experiment. Why couldn’t the world look exactly as we see it if God was evil and deceptive? Other than faith, how can you know God’s moral nature. (If God even exists and has any moral nature.)</p><p> </p><p>Edited to add: Honestly, I’m an upbeat person. I’ve had quite a happy and stress-free life. If there is a God, for some reason he’s been very good to this non-believer. <img src="http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/images/graemlins/default/thumbsup.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":oldthumbsup:" title="Old Thumbsup :oldthumbsup:" data-shortname=":oldthumbsup:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayem, post: 74360415, member: 8344"] Consider this as another thought experiment. An evil and deceptive God would allow love, kindness, happiness, and answered prayers. If everything in life was unrelieved misery, we wouldn’t know anything different. Such a God could have posed Jesus as the redeemer of sin and provider of eternal life. Which would give us hope and keep us as good, submissive sheep while God afflicts us with torment. But it’s a fraud—all part of a deceit to fool us and disguise his true nature. I know a believer would call this blasphemous (and depressing.) But it’s an experiment. Why couldn’t the world look exactly as we see it if God was evil and deceptive? Other than faith, how can you know God’s moral nature. (If God even exists and has any moral nature.) Edited to add: Honestly, I’m an upbeat person. I’ve had quite a happy and stress-free life. If there is a God, for some reason he’s been very good to this non-believer. :oldthumbsup: [/QUOTE]
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