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Originally Posted by irtrogdor  Because the God I believe in told me (through the bible) that he created the universe with intelligent design. |
Now you are aware that you could of course ask God directly and actually get an answer right? Or do you not trust yourself enough to do that? Or is it simple laziness-- like, why should I? Somebody else already got inspired 2000 years ago and wrote about it, why bother?
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But how you could you create God, who is perfect, from your image, which is imperfect? That just doesn't make any sense! Unless you are saying that your God is imperfect, but if that is the case, how can he be God? Wouldn't there be another entity above your God that is slightly more perfect, and one above that one, and so on? If God was imperfect, could you "kill" him? Would you then become God? And if you became your own God, what would you have power over? Yourself?
(Those are all hypothetical, I'm not suggesting I think that you believe any of it)
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If God wasn't created in the image of the people who belong to all the different religions (and by those who also don't by the way, surprise), then there would be an easy agreement about the whole God-idea. I'm sure you think yours is the perfect one. Here's a reality check. So does that muslim and that hindu and that jew and that atheist. Everybody's God is Perfect because he/she/it is created in their image. God is perfect to that person, or those people, or that religion. So yeah, my god is perfect to me. As I'm sure yours is to you. Even Steve may not have realized it but he has created a God in his own image. We all worship different things. You probably worship some descriptive god presented to you by ancient jewish understanding (at that time) of what a god looked like and behaved like.
Oh, and btw, Steve mentioned about Jesus being a fictitious character.......do you know there is no mention of Jesus in any other historical book other than the new testament? I mean, 2000 years ago, a lot of written record was maintained. We know a lot about philosophers and great people born way before Jesus. Yet all we know of Jesus is what's in the bible? I mean, the son of freaking God? Don't you think a few more than 1 book would have been a little enthusiastic to write about this ONLY son of God? And btw, why would you trust a book written by the same people who said a man could sell his sister into slavery?
I mean do you really believe a man should sell his sister into slavery? Oh wait.......but it's in the bible!!!!!
The bible is simply a book of moral codes written for the jewish culture 2000 years ago. Get with the program people!