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In reply to the discussion: What if God's existence were proven without doubt? Good or bad? [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)37. Which is why entertaining the idea...
"Which is a valid line of logic, I suppose, but when your premise is that we can't know anything for sure, then this is ALL academic. "
...of limitless magic powers in the first place is irrational. Once you've done that you've basically thrown reason out the window and declared it's time for make believe, since anyone can just make up any magical explanation they want and they'll all be equally valid and immune to testing or verification. (Which also goes for arbitrarily declaring that only God can use these magic powers... there's no possible way to back that up or prove it either)
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God is often portrayed as a special pleading exception to the universe.
AtheistCrusader
May 2014
#39
Is it beyond the power of an omnipotent being to be known, and still a god?
AtheistCrusader
May 2014
#18
Right. An omnipotent being would arrive on earth - and be found boring and ordinary?
Brettongarcia
May 2014
#62
"I recently stumbled on an interesting thesis:That we only worship God, because he's removed from us
Brettongarcia
May 2014
#64
It might be more than semantics: "can God do something logically contradictory" is the question
Brettongarcia
May 2014
#108
God CAN do anything; but DOES he? We don't see a miraculous overruling of rules much in daily life.
Brettongarcia
May 2014
#110
How can it be possibe for an omnipotent being to be incapable of making itself comprehensible to us?
AtheistCrusader
May 2014
#28
I've got a new theory about "god" and it's time I start talking about it.
The_Commonist
May 2014
#45
Do you have to cover yourself entirely in iron or just have a pendant or something?
cbayer
May 2014
#71
Could be the fact that their had chariots at all, they were a very effective weapon of war...
Humanist_Activist
May 2014
#78
I would say the most likely explanation for that is the lack of suitable draft animals...
Humanist_Activist
May 2014
#86
Like I said, a lot of cultures attributed magical or supernatural properties to iron...
Humanist_Activist
May 2014
#80
Antonio Porchia: Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? nt
Snotcicles
May 2014
#81
The doctirne of faith, that one is saved only by faith, would requrie a whole new church if God's
Agnosticsherbet
May 2014
#90
God's supposed transcendence of the physical universe is specific to certain religions.
tblue37
May 2014
#102
Christianity seems to present a partially-transcendent but also partially embodied/material god
Brettongarcia
May 2014
#105
Your Christian deity, not mine. (Just a friendly modification of your modifier there.)
tblue37
May 2014
#106