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I think for the same reason we can't teleport or have replicators like on Star Trek. We need actual modes of transportation and the closest we come to the latter are 3D printers. You can want things instantly but the physics of things to be created depend on doing it the slow way.
A lot of our DNA is actually viral in nature. If diseases didn't exist, we might not either. see here
Religion is a cultural construct. Even Jesus, referencing other prophets, says that God doesn't actually NEED the stuff we do. It's for OUR benefit, not God's.
Team Satan brings the hot sauce to the tailgating party.
I feel there are several options:5. Why doesn't He reveal himself to the world so that all will believe?
We're already organic robots. With drugs and other types of manipulation you can easily reprogram anyone. If we were some sort of magical entity free of such influences, we wouldn't even be able to get drunk and do stupid stuff.
To be fair, though, the bible has lots of unsubstantiated claims, like Jesus' sinless nature. Sure, it CLAIMS it, but in the actual stories, he sins quite a bit. Similarly, it is claimed Satan is the Father of Lies, and yet nowhere he actually appears does he do so. This is called "bad writing".
Not the poor guy who lost his head. Apparently there are limitations.
Indeed. His earliest characterizations don't seem to require these elements. They seem to come later, perhaps influenced by Plato and his stupid ideal forms and crap.
I think for the same reason we can't teleport or have replicators like on Star Trek. We need actual modes of transportation and the closest we come to the latter are 3D printers. You can want things instantly but the physics of things to be created depend on doing it the slow way.
A lot of our DNA is actually viral in nature. If diseases didn't exist, we might not either. see here
Religion is a cultural construct. Even Jesus, referencing other prophets, says that God doesn't actually NEED the stuff we do. It's for OUR benefit, not God's.
Team Satan brings the hot sauce to the tailgating party.
I feel there are several options:
1. Yahweh as an entity is based on some guy who was so cool his followers deified him. Wouldn't be the first and won't be the last. Guy dies but the memory lives on.
2. Yahweh as an entity is not an immortal god. Many gods throughout the time period needed magic fruit or drink or whatever to be immortal and could die easily if without it. Yahweh may be a real god who died and that's why supposedly no one can see Him anymore.
3. God is not an entity we can see, just as a bacterium or parasite inside our bodies will never appreciate what we look like as a whole. He may be invisible due to matters of scale.
4. A divine essence may exist but isn't like a sentient being, more like the Force. All gods may be cultural interpretations of feeling this divine essence.
We're already organic robots. With drugs and other types of manipulation you can easily reprogram anyone. If we were some sort of magical entity free of such influences, we wouldn't even be able to get drunk and do stupid stuff.
To be fair, though, the bible has lots of unsubstantiated claims, like Jesus' sinless nature. Sure, it CLAIMS it, but in the actual stories, he sins quite a bit. Similarly, it is claimed Satan is the Father of Lies, and yet nowhere he actually appears does he do so. This is called "bad writing".
Not the poor guy who lost his head. Apparently there are limitations.
Indeed. His earliest characterizations don't seem to require these elements. They seem to come later, perhaps influenced by Plato and his stupid ideal forms and crap.
Isn't it though. I look at it as just another form of cherry picking, only this time it isn't from scripture, but from all the extra-biblical pronouncements that have become dogma.
But it could be argued that more suffering will allow for more "growth", so why not think of it in the opposite direction: should God make our lives even worse for the sake of better growth?
If that's what He wanted He could have just made us squirrels.Live a life without cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, etc. Live a life without countries/radicals/terrorists going to war in the name of religion X. All worship or at least acknowledge God as the Supreme being. Quit filling people's heads with nonsense about some mystical scapegoat that they can blame for all the evil in the world.
Lastly, to shut the atheists up.
True, but my point is that the bible doesn't back up its own claims. It's much easier to choose a claim as it's probably just a couple of sentences' long, but to judge things like themes, characterizations, etc, you need to be able to read more and many people just like quote mining. Intellectual laziness is partly why Christianity is why it is.
1. Why doesn't He just snap His divine fingers and erase sin?
2. Why doesn't He just nod and eradicate all sickness and disease?
3. Why doesn't He just put it into the minds of every human what true religion is?
4. Why doesn't He destroy Satan and the demons, since He created them?
5. Why doesn't He reveal himself to the world so that all will believe?
He did, albeit several million / billion years ago. Then we evolved.
1. Why doesn't He just snap His divine fingers and erase sin?
2. Why doesn't He just nod and eradicate all sickness and disease?
3. Why doesn't He just put it into the minds of every human what true religion is?
4. Why doesn't He destroy Satan and the demons, since He created them?
5. Why doesn't He reveal himself to the world so that all will believe?
we are made to form our own mind and heart.1. Why doesn't He just snap His divine fingers and erase sin?
2. Why doesn't He just nod and eradicate all sickness and disease?
3. Why doesn't He just put it into the minds of every human what true religion is?
4. Why doesn't He destroy Satan and the demons, since He created them?
5. Why doesn't He reveal himself to the world so that all will believe?
What? Why does god need? You said it not me! Why does god need to give creatures time? why does god need to be worshipped? Why does god need to be asked to be forgiven for being created the way they were created? LMAO! What a joke of train of thought!