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Moses was just one to whom God showed himself but then again Moses did not actually see Him: "20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live. << Exodus 33:19Exodus 33:20Exodus 33:21 >>", God left the rest of the people at the base of the mountain, where they could not see him, and they made the golden calf (which was a stupid, unnecessary move of those people). God is all-powerful, so he could easily just make himself able to be seen while everyone was alive. If he cannot do that, we'd have a bunch of dead people all over the Earth after "10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink." |
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Yes, God is omnipotent, but He cannot go against His own nature. He cannot sin. He is perfect and cannot be otherwise, which is what would be required in order for men to gaze upon his face.
Why not get to know Him through His Word, friend? |
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Is his atheist saying God is bent? YIC |
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Is this logical? A little. However, the problem is that this bit of logic omits some crucial information. Therefore, it's conclusion is inaccurate. What the above "paradox" lacks is vital information concerning God's nature. His omnipotence is not something independent of His nature. It is part of His nature. God has a nature and His attributes operate within that nature, as does anything and everything else. For example, I have human nature. I can run, but I cannot outrun a lion. My nature simply does not permit it. My ability to run is connected to my nature and I cannot violate it. So too with God. His omnipotence is connected to His nature since being omnipotent is part of what He is. Omnipotence, then, must be consistent with what He is and not with what He is not since His omnipotence is not an entity to itself. Therefore, God can only do those things that are consistent with His nature. He cannot lie because it is against His nature to do so. Not being able to lie does not mean He is not God or that He is not all powerful. Also, He cannot cease to be God. Since He is in all places at all times, if He stopped existing then He wouldn't be in all places at all times. Therefore, He cannot cease to exist without violating His own nature. The point is that God cannot do something that is a violation of His own existence and nature. Therefore, He cannot make a rock so big he can't pick up, or make something bigger than Himself, etc. But, not being able to do this does not mean He is not God, nor that He is not omnipotent. Omnipotence is not the ability to do anything conceivable, but the ability to do anything consistent with His nature and consistent with His desire within the realm of His unlimited and universal power which we do not possess. This does not mean He can violate His own nature. If He did something inconsistent with His nature, then He would be self-contradictory. If God were self-contradictory, He would not be true. Likewise, if He did something that violated His nature, like make a rock so big He couldn't pick it up, He would also not be true since that would be a self-contradiction. Since truth is not self-contradictory, as neither is God, if He were not true, then He would not be God. But God is true and not self-contradictory. Therefore, God cannot do something that violates His own nature. Another way to look at it is to realize that in order for God to make something so big He couldn't pick it up, He would have to make a rock bigger than Himself. Since He is infinite in size, He would have to make something that would be bigger than Himself. Since it is His nature to be the biggest thing in existence because He created all things, He cannot violate His own nature by making a rock that is larger than He. Also, since a rock, by definition, is not infinitely big, then it isn't logically possible to make a rock, something that is finite in size, be infinite in size (no longer a rock) since only God is infinite in size. At dictionary.com, a rock is defined as a "Relatively hard, naturally formed mineral or petrified matter; stone. a) A relatively small piece or fragment of such material. b) A relatively large body of such material, as a cliff or peak. c) A naturally formed aggregate of mineral matter constituting a significant part of the earth's crust." A rock, by definition, is not infinitely large. So to say the rock must be so big that God cannot pick it up is to say that the rock is no longer a rock. What the critics are asking is that God become self-contradictory as a proof He doesn't exist. Their assertion is illogical from the start. What they are doing is trying to get God to be illogical. They are being illogical to prove God doesn't exist, instead of using logic. It doesn't work and the "paradox" is self-refuting and invalid. |
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What God proves by not being able to break all rules, including those of logic, is that He is only stronger than us, but that those rules are stronger than He is.
If we build a robot, we have authority over said robot, we can make it do stuff, we can shut it down... the robot will not be able to build us though, or order us around. This means we are stronger than the robot. But we cannot be omnipotent just because we built the robot, there are plenty of things we cannot do either. So, if we claim to be omnipotent, the robot will believe us, but if the robot knows the definition, it will ask us to do something against the rules of the world. When it sees we can't, it will say we lied that we are omnipotent. Omnipotence is a paradox. God's existence does not sound like a paradox. God having the supreme power over us, I'd agree. But if God claims he is omnipotent, then God himself claims to be a paradox. Either God is one with the rules that this world is based of and could modify them at will, or God is also subject to these rules, in which case the rules are stronger than God Himself. |
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You might instead educate yourself: Bible paradoxes |
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Mystery solved:) Go ***NAUGHTY WORDS REMOVED*** ***NAUGHTY WORDS REMOVED*** retarded brainwashed idiotic ***NAUGHTY WORDS REMOVED***. |
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Asexual and proud, you child worshippers! I rather be a monkey worshipper than a child worshipper. :devil:
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:badmood: Yours in Christ, Z. Smyth |
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I have returned.
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God also gave us cannabis. It doesn't mean we must smoketh the weeds. |
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That being said, when I was married ( I am thrice a widow), I grit my teeth and performed my conjugal duty. I tried to make this as pleasureless and quick as possible, so as not to unnecessarily burden the females with sinful thoughts, having commanded them to think about Jesus when I was attempting to deflower them. Why don't you find yourself a nice husband and produce some soldiers for Christ? As a virgin, your worth is far more than that of a defiled whore (a non-virgin). Clearly, God brought you here for a reason. |
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Have you ever considered that perhaps God has smitten you with a barren, unlonging womb because of your sin? Have you closed your eyes, thinking of Jesus Christ, and asked HIM to heal your enshackled loins? |
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