Is there no such thing as "choice"? If there is, how is there?

~~Leo656~~ · 05-07-2022, 01:51 PM

Hypothetically, if God is real and all-powerful then he could manifest physically to ensure that people saw him with their own eyes, and heard from his own mouth what we were expected to do. It wouldn't necessarily take much, and it would undoubtedly do some good.

But we're supposed to take everything on faith, which as we've clearly seen simply does not work. So I am not sure what God expects from mere mortals. I get that he's not supposed to be subject to our beck and call, but if he's all-knowing, he knows that most people won't believe without proof. And so in turn they should not be punished for lacking faith. He would understand it, and if he cared enough, he would rectify it.

I don't know, the whole things sounds a lot like Santa Claus to me. But I can't outright dismiss the possibility outright that there's a higher power. I just think that if it exists, our own understanding of it is probably quite incorrect.

05-07-2022, 01:51 PM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Hypothetically, if God is real and all-powerful then he could manifest physically to ensure that people saw him with their own eyes, and heard from his own mouth what we were expected to do. It wouldn't necessarily take much, and it would undoubtedly do some good. But we're supposed to take everything on faith, which as we've clearly seen simply does not work. So I am not sure what God expects from mere mortals. I get that he's not supposed to be subject to our beck and call, but if he's all-knowing, he knows that most people won't believe without proof. And so in turn they should not be punished for lacking faith. He would understand it, and if he cared enough, he would rectify it. I don't know, the whole things sounds a lot like Santa Claus to me. But I can't outright dismiss the possibility outright that there's a higher power. I just think that if it exists, our own understanding of it is probably quite incorrect.