Whatever you quote must be related with human being!
2006-09-17 22:29:54 · 26 answers · asked by abjwul 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Planting the apple -seed.
2006-09-18 21:44:58 · answer #1 · answered by rjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's the intelligent questions that were the mistake, not the stupid ones. God should never have built mankind with the ability to question his existance to the degree we do. Maybe we couldn't survive without our intellect but asking questions who's asnwer ends up being "Because" has been the cause of more bloodshed in our history than land oil or racial hatred. If in the end our faith has to be blinded to make sense what's the point in having a free will?
2006-09-17 22:48:11 · answer #2 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Created Humans is the biggest and the greatest of God's Mistakes.
2006-09-18 01:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by Joxie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler
Saddam Hussein
Dr. Mengela
Allison Godchaux
2006-09-17 22:35:53 · answer #4 · answered by bambi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that God permits all the pain, horror, and unspeakable suffering in the world (which I will henceforth refer to just as badness, for sake of brevity), because it comes from man making bad choices, and if man was not free to make bad choices this lack of freewill world also be a kind of badness. If we take this view then free will must be one whopper of a goodness, because the magnitude of its goodness is the justification for all badness.
I think the logic goes like this: if the world was all good, then every choice would lead to more goodness, whence then would man find his free will. Since free will is real good goodness, it cancels out a lot of badness. In fact, it cancels out so much badness, that when you combine it with the terrible badness we see in the world, it still leaves more goodness than if we were living in a world with all other goodnesses but no free will goodness. An assumption is made, that because God is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient (infinitely completely good, infinitely powerful, and infinitely knowing), he would only allow the very least amount of badness necessary for sustaining free will. When considered in this light, the world, as horrible as it might appear to us, is still the best of all possible worlds.
If you prefer to think in mathematical terms you could imagine it thusly:
G=Maximum baseline goodness (goodness in a perfect world free of all badness but also devoid of the extra goodness of free will)
F=Goodness of free will
B=Minimal badness in our world required to sustain F.
Supposedly the universe is such that G+B>H, and therefore God has given us the best of all possible worlds. Goodness has been successfully maximized.
Momentarily Leaving aside the reservations I fee as to the goodness of the aforementioned logic. It seems to me that, even if we accepted this uncritically, (and assuming that badness really does come from our bad choices) then god should have created man to have free will, but set it up such that each person always made the right choice of his own free will. If a critic says that it is not possible to set it up such that each person chooses the right choice of his own fee will, then perhaps I would argue that god doesn't seem to be living up to the omnipotence claim. Otherwise if god could do this, but chooses not to, then I would argue that god is not living up to the omnibenevolent claim. If god could do this, and would do this, but he/she just doesn't know how to do it, then I would say that he is not living up to the omniscience claim.
OK now, what was I going to say? Oh yeah, I remember. Assuming god is not perfect I would say his greatest mistake was not setting everything up so man always made the right choice after deliberating with his or her own free will.
CR
2006-09-17 23:36:21 · answer #5 · answered by CriticalRationalist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only mistake is of NOT EVER HAVING COMMITTED A MISTAKE !
That is why it relates to humans. Logically humans find it very difficult to accept someone faultless !
2006-09-18 02:12:24 · answer #6 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's biggest mistake: the double-ended electrical dildo.
That kind of put man at a distinct disadvantage.
2006-09-25 09:21:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If ever He made a mistake..
HIs greatest mistake is giving us the word mistake in our vocabulary
hehe
2006-09-17 22:39:27 · answer #8 · answered by akoaypilipino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allowing humans the smug but specious self satisfaction that sentient thought means intelligent thought
2006-09-17 22:34:48 · answer #9 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Himself.
2006-09-18 01:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by ubernothing@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the commandments, oh yes and there are more than 10, is states "thou shalt not kill" then if you carry on reading you will find, "thou shall not let a witch live".
I would say that's one big cock up, a huge contradiction in terms!!
2006-09-18 00:44:55 · answer #11 · answered by Migz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋