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I believe I just said He didn't create everything.

Now, when you're done telling me what I believe, rather than asking, we can continue.

Also, citation from Genesis?

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Brovo said
He created souls. If he didn't, he did not create everything, which goes against the core of his mythos.

He created souls, not what they were composed of. Intelligence, the essence of YOU, was not made by Him. The soul, your incorporeal form and how you interface with reality, was created by Him.

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"Not believing in him is sufficient punishment to be sent to hell even if you're a girl scout supporting nurse who sacrifices everything to save babies. Don't believe in god? Go to hell. Again, immoral. Again, not worth worship, even if he did exist."

Not actually true.

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Simple misunderstanding. My brain is not, at all, me. Destroy my brain, I still exist. He can alter the brain, not the soul.

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Because evil has to exist. Recall where I said He cannot empower you with understanding? Evil had to exist, and it came from free will. Had we not this understanding of the concept of evil, we might have committed evil after He made us gods as well, which is obviously a giant problem. Who knew Stan Lee was such a theologian? "With great power, comes great responsibility." This life is basically a giant background check before we become gods, that if we pass, we understand evil and will not commit it.

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Then he's not truly omnipotent, as omnipotence is defined as being, literally, "all powerful". If he's not all powerful, why call him God? Or, better yet, why worship him?

And if he's not all powerful, how did he create everything? How can he see the future? Make predetermined things?

Or, do you have a different interpretation of God?

All those powers you listed exist, and He has. No, He is not truly omnipotent.

As to why worship him, He offers me the best chance at happiness. That is all. So I am duly appreciative.

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Brovo said
Oh no. I understand them quite well enough. I'm just too skeptical to believe that a God who endowed me with reason would then wish me to forgo their use... Or, maybe, just maybe, the bible was written by fallible humans, and like the 99% of other religions that turned out to be just fiction... Mmm... Maybe this one is too.

Is it the mark of foolishness to admit one does not know something? There are secrets in this universe that elude you, there a secrets of religion which elude him. I will answer all your questions I have answers for.

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Let me clear up Omnipotence. There are laws upon God even He cannot violate. Also, time existed before God. Let's say there are 2000 powers that exist. I have two, God has all 2000. But there are some powers which do not exist, and He does not have those.

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Brovo said
No. I'm taking the bible literally. And you apparently can't come up with a counter argument for why your loving, omnipotent, omniscient god, would unleash the most horrifying of evils on the very things he loves when he has the power to empower them with whatever he wants them to learn immediately and without pain, making the pain itself absolutely pointless. Which is good.

Because He doesn't. He can't change your soul. He can speak with you, explain to you, but cannot make you learn or more importantly understand anything, as making you understand takes away your free will. Jesus had to physically suffer every pain so he could understand it.

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GreivousKhan said
Mostly because you can't charge/prep them. Outside of T1 tech would kill almost everything.

Uh, can't charge tech? Never heard of missile lock?