Clearly, if “the Gods” are not deemed to be omniscient and omnipotent, then it must somehow be established how “for all practical purposes” the existential relationship between them and “mere mortals” really does work.
And I’m merely pointing out the obvious. This: that when [historically] “the Gods” reconfigured into a God, the God, my God, the overwhelming preponderance of the true believers themselves ascribed omniscience and omnipotence to them.
How could a mere mortal possibly be more rational than an omniscient God?
Who said “more rational”? Nobody.
Look, either the God that one believes in is deemed omniscient or He isn’t.
If so, human moral interactions would [necessarily] be judged from that frame of mind. If not then it would appear that some human interactions are not known by God. They would be judged only by other mere mortals subscribing to whatever particular set of behaviors they deem to be either right or wrong.
Or you might choose a behavior that no one at all is privy to. Then what? Well, as long as you can rationalize it to yourself, you’re good.
I’m human and I’m playing Blackjack holding a 19 in my hand. The dealer shows 10. Rationality says that I don’t draw a card.
God is playing Blackjack and is holding 19 and again the dealer shows 10. But God, being omniscient knows that dealer’s hand is 20 and that the next card is a 2. God draws a card. And wins.
Yep, that’s the way it would work alright. But what about those who come along and insist that gambling itself is immoral. With an omniscient God, it either is or is not “a sin”. But in a no-God world how exactly would mere mortals go about deciding that?
Well, Christians can Google it. They can find sites like this: biblestudytools.com/topical … ing-a-sin/
They can read them. And, afterwards, the objectivists among them can decide that it either IS immoral or that it is NOT immoral. Period. That they are “more knowledgeable” about it.
Me? Well, in my own rendition of a No God world I tumble down into my dilemma above.
How about you?
What’s my point?
Even if God comes down out of heaven and lays out “the rules”, humans are still going to have make decisions based on their limited knowledge and ability. The rules won’t cover every possible situation and God is not going to make every decision for every person. What kind of puppetry/slavery would it be if He made every decision?
But there a world of difference between being a gambler who proves he is more knowledgeable about playing poker and being an ethicist who alleges to be more knowledgeable in deciding if one ought to play poker for money at all.
And how about strip poker? [-o<