You missed my point; "like", "love", it's just semantics. Suffering=punishment. And that was what I was addressing before. Why give us a choice...
Again, having a choice is super-awesome. I understand God wants people to choose to like him or not. But why have us go through the hullabaloo of...
The government doesn't have the power to stop every crime though. But that's assuming you think God is all-powerful. Sorry. Side note: Do you...
You'd love to think the people he doesn't save would be criminals, but you don't know that. EDIT: Wait, what do you mean he "used" them?
Fair enough, I lost what I was trying to say in that analogy. :P Nah, that robot would be annoying. And, it's nice that God might want people to...
Faith in God? Faith in the Bible? Which version? Is it even the Bible, or the Torah, or some other text?
Very nice, I like this thread. woowoowoo Anyway, here is a little thought that has been, ah, bubbling in my head. God. He made us; he is...
Did we choose? How can one really choose if they are unaware of the consequences? God may have told them eating from the tree was "bad", but did...
You don't know Heaven is there for sure. What is known is that there is evil abound, and God has the power to stop it all. But he doesn't even...
But, wouldn't he foresee all of this happening? He would, should know what giving people free will implies. And if you think we have free will to...
True, God may still be real. But as you agreed, there are contradictions; why should one believe the other stuff? You don't know that God appeared...
Sheesh man, we oughtta have a disclamer in the debates so people stop coming in and saying, "ohhhh this debate is pointless". :P
Numberitized for convienience. 1. My point of saying all that was just to make you think of reasons why God would want to create us. If he is...
EDIT: Screw my explanation. I'm just saying the justice repeats his line differently after Obama pauses. Well, I think in the far future there...
WHO SAYS GOD WAS LONELY? If he is omniscient, shouldn't he have been able to see he was going to make companions in the future? If he is...
No. :( My iPod can keep me company I guess.
Dude, I'm so surprised I've never heard of these guys before. They're crazy awesome in like 10 different ways.
I just realized what your avatar is. :P = win
Well, was Nitrous' definition wrong? Good. Here is another example from this thread. Odd definition, since you can have anything change a...
Eh, that's kind of a lot of planning if you think about the scale of the universe. Then again, he could be planning for alien expansion as well as...