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BitaTruble -> RE: Could you resist and why would you want to? (2/10/2012 10:10:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM
Suppose God were a person that knew you better than you know yourself and had the means to fabricate anything including a perfect body, male or female. Are you saying that God would not have what it takes to seduce you if it were so inclined? As an Atheist you have a duty to acknowledge that your reasoning is flawed. Could you resist and why would you want to?
It is supposed that I, along with everyone else, was created in the GodGuys image. Certainly that's not a flesh thing even if GodGuy puts on a flesh suit. We're all so different in that regard. So it's something else, some other image of which I would be a reflection. That's gotta be soul or spirit or character or emotion. Something along those lines. The name is really irrelevant. It's the love, the hate, joy, despair, hope, the ability to laugh at a joke, cry at a funeral.. the whole shebang. Those things in me would be in the GodGuy, too. The good, bad and indifferent, what I feel is what GodGuy would have to feel if I am in his image.. if I am his reflection. That being the case, as it must be if the creation is the reflection, then he is either as flawed as I am or what I think of as flaws are not, in fact, flaws at all in which case, I, too, am perfect.
Without flaws though, there is no sin. Without sin, you don't send your son down to die for the sins of others, so sin must be a truth if GodGuy is a truth. If sin is truth, then flaws are truth. If flaws are truth then GodGuy is flawed. Either that or he didn't send Hey Zeus down anywhere and any sins we have are on us to repair or repent. We, GodGuy and I are either both flawed or both perfect. I opt for flawed because I'm Machiavellian (as in seeing things as they are rather than as I wish they were) in that regard but I strive for perfect because I think that's what good people try to do and I try to be good whether I am successful in the endeavor or not.
Even if it could be proven that GodGuy exists, he's would be both the highest and lowest of all. I won't worship him because of the evil that is within, the insanity, the complete corruption, sickness and all other things are too overwhelming for me to be able to set those aside and see the beauty, joy, bliss that must also be there. In me, then in him.. in anyone, then in him and there are some pretty scary people on this planet.
I think the best I could do would be to acknowledge his humanity, as I do my own, then the two of us could go out and grab a cup of coffee or eat oranges or something together.
All that stuff up there.. that stuff I just wrote is based on the idea that creation is the image of God.
Now, let me throw all that out and address it from the point of view that creation is 'not' the image of God. GodGuy is elite, and the qualities we possess as humans are simply by-products of our existance and GodGuy is other and perfect.
So what? Other is just other. Is perfect better? How do you grow from perfect? Talk about a major stumble block. GodGuys at the end. There is no more journey, only the stagnation of mere existance.
Hell, if I got to that point and faced centuries of nothing new to discover because I know it all, I might make a race of pets to amuse myself as well.
I see nothing to worship. It's just an Other with pets.
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