I can agree with this one point from the believer's stand point..
It sure would make life easier if there were an all powerful being watching over all of us, and fixing our problems...
It would also be nice to find a genie in a lamp...
Do you ever wish that you were wrong?
(not saying "wishing" will make it happen, but have you considered it?)
2007-11-30 03:10:19 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not talking about the biblical monster from the OT...
the 4 omni god....
omiscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omnipresent...
2007-11-30 03:14:18 · update #1
Yeah, and each time I do, I realize why it's so much better that they don't. Do you know how many Christians want to see me burn in Hell? If a god existed granted their wishes then earth would be a place where nothing made sense. Gods interacting with humans can only bring catastrophy, because humans don't like other humans, and often want what other humans rightfully possess.
Would you really want certain members of this forum to have access to an all powerful deity that says "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. (John 14:12)"?
Could you imagine the world in which CBG has the things he asks granted? I'd rather have no gods than gods that do what ever their followers ask in their names.
2007-11-30 03:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've thought about it and no, I do no wish there were a god of any type, certainly not any of the ones we have come up with so far.
I'm not sure how such a being could really make life any better than it already is. Could a deity make the world perfect? Is there a version of the "perfect world" that we could all agree on? Or would we just magically all agree on the perfect world that this deity created? And would we all still be able to feel all the incredible emotions that we can feel now? I just don't know that we would get as much out of a perfect world.
And if the deity can't make the world perfect, then I don't see much use for one.
2007-11-30 11:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't wish I lived under an inflexible dictatorship that necessarily defies explanation.
"It sure would make life easier of there was an all powerful being over all of us, and fixing all our problems..."
Yes that's great except for the fact that he doesn't fix all our problems. Bad things happen to good people every day. How could an omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent God sit idly by and watch that stuff happen?
2007-11-30 11:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I have considered it and no I like the world just like it is. I used to be Christian. The world is more joyous without gods in it and I thought I was a joyful person before. If there were a God, what would I need to do? If that God was not helpful, then why exist? No, we are in the best of all possible worlds, with its cancer, disease and death. But we have also evolved wonderful social structures such as family and friends to make life worth living.
No, this is good as it is.
2007-11-30 15:09:35 · answer #4 · answered by OPM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure -- as long as it's nothing like the gods of the religious book.
I would be fine if there were a god that created everything but didn't intervene. That's the only way that so many evil things can occur in the world today, yet a god would not be considered malevolent.
2007-11-30 14:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, I wish there was a invisible magical person looking over my shoulder and trying to help me. It'd be nice to be special and important. And to have all kinds of surety on what everything is supposed to be like and what I should do at any given time.
But it'd be boring after a while. And it would take all the fun out of life.
2007-11-30 11:17:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most atheists are not wishfull believers in anything. Certainly not in the crap that you read in the Bible, if you read it at all... You probably follow the Clergical line telling you what to believe...!
How does the loving God in Heaven wake up the day he will punish anyone?
God the Holy Ghost inspired the Bible writers to tell us like it is… (Psalm 78:65) “THEN THE LORD AWOKE AS FROM SLEEP, AS A MAN WAKES FROM THE STUPOR OF WINE.” Yeah… red eyes… vomiting all over… and cursing like Hell… ready to begin a day of killing innocent babies and making his chosen people starve to death in the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey!
2007-11-30 11:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am honest enough to admit that I would like to believe in God, in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny but odds are that none of them exist; and, if a God exists, that is to say some supernatural intelligence guiding the universe, it probably isn't the God of the Bible.
2007-11-30 11:22:10 · answer #8 · answered by geniepiper 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure,like you,I wish a lot of things.Wizards and elves,that would be cool.Life would suck for me,have utterly no purpose at all,if a god as monstrous as the one described in the Bible existed.That is a universe I could not bear.I don't mind a smartass god though."Q" from ST TNG would make a pretty cool god
2007-11-30 11:16:51 · answer #9 · answered by reporters should die 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes i wish, if there were god then the world would be at peace. all religions promise that god will personally whipe out the evil from the world but face it. if there was god then life would be heaven on earth.--- but is it???
there is no god----- there is a power just like electricity, gravity, etc we just have to discover it. but god as such like the religions speak out doesnt exist.
2007-11-30 11:22:51 · answer #10 · answered by cooool dude 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋