Harrytic
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Perhaps I didn't explain my viewpoint clearly enough. I do not believe in this god. Even if I did, I would not worship him. My question was "why worship the biblical god?". Obviously to worship him, you would have to believe in him, so I was speaking in a hypothetical sense, assuming he was real and the bible was true. I must have stepped out of the hypothetical view for a few posts without first explaining my own beliefs, I apologize for the confusion.
Yes, you did step out of that hypothetical view a few posts back. I am aware that when you started this thread you were looking at it hypothetically. Good on you.
So how long was God sitting around in heaven until he got bored enough to create the universe?
I have no idea.
and he couldn't have found entertainment in a way that doesn't cause suffering on earth and eternally in hell?
I don't know. God seems to have a bit of a sadistic streak to him. I think you've seen that for yourself when you've looked back at the Old Testament. The fact that he created an eternal hell should confirm that even more I would think. God is who God is.
Of all the arguments I've heard for why God would do the things the bible says he did, "he was bored" is one of the most odd and amusing. The bible says nothing about god being bored, as far as I know, so you must have came up with this yourself. You seem smart enough to come up with a better idea than this, you must not have thought it through very long.
God being bored is an amusing notion? Perhaps so, but like I indicated in my last post, I think, an intelligent being needs a lot more to keep his mind occupied than a being with little or no intelligence.
Yes, this is conjecture on my part, after studying the bible. I like to philosophise about things like this. It seems logical to me that such a being as God would want something to do. He would want something to rule over.
I'm actually a writer. I get to play God with my characters and it entertains me for hours. Sometimes I have bad things happen to my characters. It makes writing that story that much more interesting. It would not be so interesting if all the characters were nice to each other and only ever did pleasant things to each other. It would also be very boring if there were no villains to add conflict and troubles for the heroes. I don't think it's a stretch that it would be the same for God.