I'm always fascinated by discussions of God. They seem to be the opposite of a discussion of, say, a piece of Mars rock when people argue about whether a crystal formation in the rock was mineral or bacterial in origin. With God you start out with the empty idea of God and then try to fill in what it could be. But why assume it's there in the first place?
Can't remember where I read it recently, but somebody said when the Ebola virus manages to board a plane, we could be in big trouble. Is the Ebola virus a manifestation of God? Some people say no, because God is good, but that undermines God's omnipotence. If God is both all-powerful AND good, He/she/it wouldn't let Ebola virus happen. Something has to give.
Let me as an atheist put a question about the manifestations of God from my own viewpoint: if you can imagine a world without God, how different would it be from the one you are living in?
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Can't remember where I read it recently, but somebody said when the Ebola virus manages to board a plane, we could be in big trouble. Is the Ebola virus a manifestation of God? Some people say no, because God is good, but that undermines God's omnipotence. If God is both all-powerful AND good, He/she/it wouldn't let Ebola virus happen. Something has to give.
Let me as an atheist put a question about the manifestations of God from my own viewpoint: if you can imagine a world without God, how different would it be from the one you are living in?