Those atheists abound on this forum. Like I said, whenever an atheist invokes God and states what God does or does not do, they are referring to God. There is no get out of jail free card.
You are just repeating the same thing.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. Atheists want a free pass, they want to be able to say any damn thing about God and then they say no God exists. Tat is logically incoherent because a nonexistent entity cannot be responsible for anything.
Of course not. But do you really not understand the idea of disagreeing with a claim someone else makes and assuming that it is true in order to point out the logical discrepancies? These atheists are not saying bad things about God, just about someone else's claims about God.
No, that is not the reason. God needs no cheerleaders because God has no needs at all.
Only humans and other animals have needs.
So what is the reason? You told me God made us so we would worship him. Seems a little odd if he has no wish or need for worship. A being that has no needs still needs a reason for what it does, no?
The person who sets it of is to blame.
That would be the person who treads on it. Would you like to rethink that?
Thanks. My life has been one tragedy after another, and by all rights I should have lost my faith in God long, long ago, but I have sustained my faith with the help of friends like my bff
@Truthseeker.
I have known many people who get through life's troubles better with a faith in God.
However, some improvement might be on the way.
I do hope so.
The argument that atheists make -- that God can eliminate suffering so God should eliminate suffering -- is logically incoherent.
Only when you put it that way. The Problem of Evil says that God should eliminate suffering
if he is all benevolent. A god that didn't do that would not be benevolent, but could perfectly well exist.
This is what atheists do not understand. Atheists think omnipotent means that
God can do anything, which really means God should be doing everything they expect Him to do. They do not understand what omnipotence really means.
It means that God can do anything but God only does what God chooses to do.
“Say: O people! Let not this life and its deceits deceive you, for the world and all that is therein is held firmly in the grasp of His Will. He bestoweth His favor on whom He willeth, and from whom He willeth He taketh it away. He doth whatsoever He chooseth.” Gleanings, p. 209
Why should an omnipotent/omniscient God do what humans expect Him to do? How could any human know more than God regarding what is
best for humans?
Well, that works I suppose. If everything is beyond our understanding, we should just shut up. Do you ever think, though, that we might be in the hands of an evil God? I can't think of a more frightening idea, an omnipotent God that wasn't kindly disposed towards us.