So, imagine you create a universe....and in this universe were tiny, insignificant (insignifcant relative to your awesome universe creating powers, that is) living creatures. How petty would you have to be to then torture these creatures for all eternity if they didn't worship you?
2006-06-18 17:46:25 · 21 answers · asked by lamoviemaven 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ken sisk - we've already established that these pathetic creatures are stupid, relative to your god-like wonderfulness. The question you conveniently ignore is: How petty would you have to be to really care if they worshipped you or not.....?
2006-06-18 17:54:41 · update #1
You don't step on big bugs for fun?
2006-06-18 17:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by 1235 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't torture anyone, no matter how "petty" the creatures are or aren't. If i created the universe, then i created free will, and it would be hypocritical for me to not accept that some of the creatures i created don't worship me. In fact, they shouldn't worship. Just respect what i made, and recognize the beauty that i created. I have to accept that the creatures i created have the free will, which i also created, to worship and believe anything they want.
2006-06-19 00:52:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can understand the atheist aspect, I've been there. When we live a life without doing God's work, we will be no better than we were before we were born. If we had robots and programmed them for free will, yes, they will do what they're programmed. A bot could hit a wall and just keep on going, that's what he's programmed to do. But what you hope he would do is watch out for the wall and turn instead. Same with God. We are programmed to have free will but if we hurt one another, it's not what He hopes we will do. And the good ones, He keeps. The bad ones, He puts them back as they were before to give Him time to make them better. The more that's wrong with the bot, the more time the bot has to wait. Same with us. Anyhow, if we're relating all this to created beings like robots, that's how I would see it.
2006-06-19 01:37:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a scientist, I believe such a being would hardly even be much concerned with our existence, since such a being would most likely be composed of energy. Thus, having no need for an organic flesh and blood body, this being would function on a completely different plane of existence where it's concerns would not be so much for the mundane affairs of this doomed world, but more for the keeping of order in the universe.
2006-06-19 00:56:56 · answer #4 · answered by tropicvibe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you saying exactly?
Psalm 24:1 The Earth is the LORD'S,and the fullness thereof: the world and they that dwell there in.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things hold fast that which is good.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,saith the LORD,thoughts of peace and not of evil,to give you and expected end.
Read Your Bible Everyday
2006-06-19 01:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that would happen in my universe. What I would do is see if there were any of my creatures that would want to be with me and get to know me. And if there were I would make a way so that it could be possible. For those that weren't interested, I would just leave them be and let them live their lives the way they wanted to.
2006-06-19 00:58:34 · answer #6 · answered by novalee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is trying to create Robots to fulfill his feeling of creating an Universe. But anyways, humans are prone to be biased and if they are not biased why would they go on to create a new one instead of living here with each other with love and affection...
We believe the earth as a family of all (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam) so we should try to cultivate brotherhood in us
2006-06-19 00:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Shake_her 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were perfectly good and loving, and if you were perfectly fair and just as well as infinitely holy, it would happen. But you're not God, and don't even think you are. When we sin, we offend God's infinite holiness, and because God is perfectly fair and just, there are consequences to pay.
You don't get into heaven by works or by being "good" by atheistic standards. You get into heaven by having your sins removed from you. It isn't a question of what gets you into heaven, it's a question of what bars you from entering heaven. That barrier, my friend, is sin, and the only way to get rid of that barrier is to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and to ask Him for forgiveness of your sins. God took the initiative by offering you salvation; now it's your turn to take it.
Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
2006-06-19 00:51:54 · answer #8 · answered by Soga 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i understand the what you're implying here. but, theres 2 sides to every coin. lots of ppl keep fish tanks, or gardens, or whatever, and sometimes there are things that you need to get rid of to let everything else flourish. i mean, i kill the weeds on the lawn to let the flowers grow, the weeds might think i'm torturing them, but its for the greater good of my landscaping.
i'm not saying that there is or isnt a god, or whatever. or that he is or isnt cruel, i'm just saying, none of us can prove anything either way. so why do we bother tyring to convert each other?
atheists cant prove theres not a god, and believers cant prove that there is. just because a book says there is, that doesnt mean its true. and just because theres not any visible proof, that doesnt prove theres not one. the evidence of absence is NOT the absence of evidence. if i read green eggs and ham, whether or not i decide the book is true, doesnt make it true. and i've never seen a billion dollars, and i never will. so, prove to me that its out there? but i still can believe it without seeing it. i've never seen pluto, but i can still believe its there, right?
its all pointless. we should just leave each other alone.
2006-06-19 00:55:09 · answer #9 · answered by hellion210 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To worship simply means to Love. When one truly meets the creator....they have just met Love. Once in the awareness, of the presence of Love, one merges with that awareness of presence...of Love. It is not possible then not to Love the Beloved, Love cause the Beloved is everything that you Love, or have Loved or will Love. God (is Love) is not confined to any book, or teaching, or description. God can be this computer just as easily as this Heart or both, simultaneously...as well as the Love itSelf.hmmmm
Love me :)
2006-06-19 01:05:59 · answer #10 · answered by channa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would set up a system where each person in my universe is rewarded or cursed by his own actions, they'll have free choice to choose between good or evil and therefore be blessed with good things for doing good acts....or be cursed with bad things happening to them if they choose to be evil....It will be left in their own hands how they want to live. Weather they worshiped me or not is irrelevant...it's all about them choosing good vs evil.
2006-06-19 01:08:05 · answer #11 · answered by sunshine25 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋