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Second post full of answers to Yahoo! Answers
Do Rabbits Pray?
If heaven is supposedly the best place ever, and some people are of the opinion that the best place ever must contain rabbits, then it surely does. If, however, some people consider the best place ever to be one without rabbits, then it certainly doesn't. Since both types of people exist, the answer is that there certainly might be.
It's probably quantum.
Can God make a mountain so big he can't lift it?
Omnipotence is paradoxial in nature.
If he can make such a mountain, then he cannot lift it.
If he cannot, then, well, he cannot.
Either way, there is something that he can't do, and it is the simplest and most popular question to ask Christians because it takes their belief and ties it in a knot. They will try to defend this, saying that making such a thing is illogical and not possible in this world - however, all they are doing is redirecting the inadequateness to another area.
If he cannot do anything illogical, then it's something he can't do, right? Why would he supposedly create a universe, then limit himself to the rules within it?
My answer is yes, he can. The only escape from this paradox is to say that God made the universe then trapped himself inside it - he has clearly already made something more powerful than himself.
Isn't it amazing that we can conjure any figment of our imagination?
Placebo is a wonderful thing. People can feel better about themselves just because their local evangelist has told them that they would as soon as they forgot all of their logic and reason to join the religion.
Similarly, prayer helps in exactly the same way that a sugar tablet does. What it says on the box is what people will believe it does.
God's chariot broke down, and he had to spend the night with the farmer's beautiful daughter.....?
If God is omnipresent (everywhere), then he is simultaneously sleeping with the farmer's beautiful daughter, lining the intestinal walls of a dead cow, cruising along the sewage pipes of New York, embedded deep within the core of the Sun, and inside your mouth.
Will we be bored in heaven?
Imagine doing everything you can imagine. This is the popular view of heaven.
However, this is from the viewpoint of someone with a finite duration. Let's expand this to the supposedly eternal length of heaven, shall we?
Now, imagine doing everything you can imagine again - an infinite number of times. Everything you do is as if you've done it an infinite number of times before. Nothing is new. There can be no curiosity, no wonder. You can feel no emotion because emotion is only caused by new knowledge.
If you're having trouble imagining things stretched to an infinite scale, we can break it down a little more. Open notepad, and start hitting the 'a' key repeatedly. Do it ten thousand times. Now do it another ten thousand times. While you're doing this, imagine what life would be like on the eternal scale. Everything you could ever do would feel as if you had done it an infinite number of times, because you literally have an eternity to fill.
Don't stop going at this A key. You'll need to keep doing it for the rest of your life. And even then, it won't be a fraction of 'infinite' because nothing with a finite duration can be placed in contrast with an infinite universe.
I think heaven must be hell.
When Jesus walked, God learned what it meant to be human. Any thoughts here?
If god needed to learn what being human was like, then he wasn't omniscient to begin with. This argument, by necessity, turns him into a limited and only moderately well-informed being rather than an all-powerful smiter.
Jesus turns up in the bible because the authorities realised that people were reacting less to empty threats of lightning and turning-into-salt and what have you. So rather than have people lose respect for a god that just didn't seem to be around any more, the new testament provides both - something to be scared of to appeal to the lower cranial instincts, and someone to aspire to for the higher thinkers.
Do Rabbits Pray?
If heaven is supposedly the best place ever, and some people are of the opinion that the best place ever must contain rabbits, then it surely does. If, however, some people consider the best place ever to be one without rabbits, then it certainly doesn't. Since both types of people exist, the answer is that there certainly might be.
It's probably quantum.
Can God make a mountain so big he can't lift it?
Omnipotence is paradoxial in nature.
If he can make such a mountain, then he cannot lift it.
If he cannot, then, well, he cannot.
Either way, there is something that he can't do, and it is the simplest and most popular question to ask Christians because it takes their belief and ties it in a knot. They will try to defend this, saying that making such a thing is illogical and not possible in this world - however, all they are doing is redirecting the inadequateness to another area.
If he cannot do anything illogical, then it's something he can't do, right? Why would he supposedly create a universe, then limit himself to the rules within it?
My answer is yes, he can. The only escape from this paradox is to say that God made the universe then trapped himself inside it - he has clearly already made something more powerful than himself.
Isn't it amazing that we can conjure any figment of our imagination?
Placebo is a wonderful thing. People can feel better about themselves just because their local evangelist has told them that they would as soon as they forgot all of their logic and reason to join the religion.
Similarly, prayer helps in exactly the same way that a sugar tablet does. What it says on the box is what people will believe it does.
God's chariot broke down, and he had to spend the night with the farmer's beautiful daughter.....?
If God is omnipresent (everywhere), then he is simultaneously sleeping with the farmer's beautiful daughter, lining the intestinal walls of a dead cow, cruising along the sewage pipes of New York, embedded deep within the core of the Sun, and inside your mouth.
Will we be bored in heaven?
Imagine doing everything you can imagine. This is the popular view of heaven.
However, this is from the viewpoint of someone with a finite duration. Let's expand this to the supposedly eternal length of heaven, shall we?
Now, imagine doing everything you can imagine again - an infinite number of times. Everything you do is as if you've done it an infinite number of times before. Nothing is new. There can be no curiosity, no wonder. You can feel no emotion because emotion is only caused by new knowledge.
If you're having trouble imagining things stretched to an infinite scale, we can break it down a little more. Open notepad, and start hitting the 'a' key repeatedly. Do it ten thousand times. Now do it another ten thousand times. While you're doing this, imagine what life would be like on the eternal scale. Everything you could ever do would feel as if you had done it an infinite number of times, because you literally have an eternity to fill.
Don't stop going at this A key. You'll need to keep doing it for the rest of your life. And even then, it won't be a fraction of 'infinite' because nothing with a finite duration can be placed in contrast with an infinite universe.
I think heaven must be hell.
When Jesus walked, God learned what it meant to be human. Any thoughts here?
If god needed to learn what being human was like, then he wasn't omniscient to begin with. This argument, by necessity, turns him into a limited and only moderately well-informed being rather than an all-powerful smiter.
Jesus turns up in the bible because the authorities realised that people were reacting less to empty threats of lightning and turning-into-salt and what have you. So rather than have people lose respect for a god that just didn't seem to be around any more, the new testament provides both - something to be scared of to appeal to the lower cranial instincts, and someone to aspire to for the higher thinkers.