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Old 06-30-2004, 12:18 AM
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Originally posted by misterX
how does god being "all-knowing" which is what omniscient means, Take away our freewill? yes he knows wha twe are about we to do, but does he stop us? no, thats why we have freewill. it would only be when he interfied and stopped us from doing something is when we lose our freewill. and 2. you saying that, you could do a better job, of you was all powerfull, then that isn't a argument as to why there isn't a god . its a argument as to why you don't like god
o and p.s
i seriously doubt you could do a better job than god. i mean, you're always complaing about how bad movies are these days. and you can't fix that, even though you could fix that little problem.
if you had the talent. (maybe thats another thing you hate or don't believe in god???????)
Man, if god knows all then he knew before you were born whether or not you were going to heaven or hell. And there is nothing you could do to change that. It's like, your entire life is written out for you in god's mind ... and you're just going through the motions like an automaton. You THINK you have free will, because you can't predict your future. But, if god told you everything you would do from here on out ... you would feel the loss of freedom then. The only difference is that YOU don't know. But god still does.

And I don't understand that last thing you said ... I couldn't do a better job than god because I can't fix the problem of all the terrible movies being made? No, I can't. Even if I made GREAT movies, people would still make terrible ones. Unless, I had god's power.

And I think you'll find that many members here believe I have enough talent to write a cheap horror film.

Here's my point on the "god's power" thing. If I was omnibenevolent (all good), and omnipotent, and cared about my creation (people), ONE thing I would change would be the needless sufferring of innocent people. I understand that people do bad things to other people, and it is their choice to do those things. But, I would at least make it so that they couldn't do those things to babies. I would put something in everyone's brains that made it painfully repulsive to even think about leaving an infant in a dumpster to die. But, that's just one thing. As Robert DeNiro said on "Inside the Actor's Studio" -- "If God exists, he has a lot of explaining to do."
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