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If God exists, would God care how many people believe in Him?

Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
This post is for both believers and atheists:
  • Believers: Do you think God cares how many people believe in Him?
  • Atheists: If God existed, do you think God would care how many people believe in Him?
Believers and atheists:
  • Do you think God cares if some people are atheists?
  • If God sent Messengers, would God care how many people believed in His Messengers?
  • If God sent a Messenger, would God have a certain time frame on how soon afterward people believed in His Messenger?
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
God doesn't care about anything whatsoever.
What possible reason would the Creator have for caring about anything?
Tom
 
danieldemol

danieldemol

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Premium Member
If God cared about everyone believing God would reveal to everyone individually.

Since God does not care whether we believe in God or not this does not happen.

God only cares if we are virtuous
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
danieldemol said:
It seems to me that if we are sufficiently non-virtuous we will wipe ourselves out, some degree of overall virtue seems to be required for our continued survival.
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We seem close to doing that.

Humanity doesn't look up to the task of reining in our animal nature. Looks to me like we're going to engage in the most horrible war yet, as the biosphere collapses due to depletion and pollution.

Maybe not. But I see no reason to think we're going to change suddenly or soon enough.
Tom
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Trailblazer said:
What do you mean by caring? Caring about who or what? o_O
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Caring.
It's a word, look it up.

We limited humans care about things. What possible reason would the Creator have for wanting, planning, caring, feeling, or any of those human activities?
Tom
 
74x12

74x12

Well-Known Member
Trailblazer said:
  • Believers: Do you think God cares how many people believe in Him?
  • Atheists: If God existed, do you think God would care how many people believe in Him?
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God's ultimately concerned for people's welfare and especially their eternal destination. So yes ... He does care about how many people believe in him.
 
leov

leov

Well-Known Member
Trailblazer said:
This post is for both believers and atheists:
  • Believers: Do you think God cares how many people believe in Him?
  • Atheists: If God existed, do you think God would care how many people believe in Him?
Believers and atheists:
  • Do you think God cares if some people are atheists?
  • If God sent Messengers, would God care how many people believed in His Messengers?
  • If God sent a Messenger, would God have a certain time frame on how soon afterward people believed in His Messenger?
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do you think we have another world to escape to?
 
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ajarntham

ajarntham

Member
Trailblazer said:
This post is for both believers and atheists:
  • Atheists: If God existed, do you think God would care how many people believe in Him?
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I would have to think of God in at least somewhat anthropomorphic terms to consider him caring about things, i.e. feeling better if one thing happened than another. I would imagine then that God might have some degree of preference for people believing in him, since he would consider a state where people knew the truth as preferable to one in which people didn't. but I would imagine this to be very far down the list of his priorities.

Trailblazer said:
If God sent Messengers, would God care how many people believed in His Messengers?
  • If God sent a Messenger, would God have a certain time frame on how soon afterward people believed in His Messenger?
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On the assumption that God sent messengers, it would appear that he did want people to believe in him, or at least in his message. It would be possible that he had no particular time frame in mind for bringing everybody to believe, but it's hard to see why he wouldn't prefer sooner to later.
 
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Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
columbus said:
Like gravity?

Gravity doesn't know anything, care about anything, plan, feel, none of those human activities. But gravity runs everything.
God's like that.
Tom
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I can agree with you in part. God runs everything but God does not plan anything or feel anything like humans do.
However, I think God does care about humans and their activities, for their sake, not for His sake.
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
74x12 said:
God's ultimately concerned for people's welfare and especially their eternal destination. So yes ... He does care about how many people believe in him.
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I can agree with that, but I do not believe that God wants the belief of people who do not want to believe in Him.
It has to be a choice.
 
Trailblazer

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
columbus said:
We operate according to our "God given" nature.
What else do we have?
Tom
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God gave us more than one nature, a lower selfish material nature and a higher noble spiritual nature, and we have free will to choose between those two natures.
 
C

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Trailblazer said:
I can agree with you in part. God runs everything but God does not plan anything or feel anything like humans do.
However, I think God does care about humans and their activities, for their sake, not for His sake.
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Why do you think that?
Tom
 
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