i’ve read books, and i’ve done research, and this is what seems to boggle my brain… please read
If you were God, what would you want
Well, you don’t know, and can’t know. You’re a human, God isn’t human, we can’t understand the concept of God, therefore, we don’t understand what he could possibly want.
But, imagine you were God, you’re an omnipotent, omnipresent being, you can do anything, create anything, be anything. As soon as you decide you want something, it becomes reality.
But, does it make sense to see God wanting something?
A God would have no emotions, no fears, no desires, no curiosity, no unger, no pain. Those are human shortcomings, not characteristics of God.
So, what’d motivate God?
Omnipotence means nothing is a challenge and what could stimulate the mind of something/someone who already knows everything?
Everything that motivates living creatures requires some kind of weakness, or flaw. Hunger, pain, love, all those motivate us. A God has none of those impulses. Basically, the only challenge for an omnipotent God, would be destroying himself. But, if God knows the future, he’d know the future of his own existance, under normal conditions. But, would his omnipotence include knowledge of what happens after he loses his omnipotence? Or, would his knowledge of the future end at that point? Maybe, but a God who knew the answer to that question would know everything, and have everything. There would no motivation for anything. No purpose to act in any way whatsoever. But, a God with the never ending question - what happens if I cease to exist? And, having no fear to continue, nor reason to continue, he might try it.
So how would we know? Well, I think we have the answer.
It’s our existance. The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in ANY way. And, since only the challenge of suicide could interest an omnipotent God, surely, we are whats left.
thoughts?? opinions?? flaws??
, i hope more people get around to reading it. i want to see what bob’s opinions are.