Would you heal? Would you punish? Would you want praise? Would you accept opinion other than your own? Would you intervene in the lives of humans? Would you leave us to our own devices? Would you damn people who erred? Would you provide and demand adherence to your standards of behavior? Would you classify the worth of different groups of people?
What would YOU do?
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I would leave you people to your own devices. Whenever you would mess up bad I'd appear and answer the unasked question: "Are we doing something wrong?". If the "enlightened" knew that the "savages" were actually just long lost family members we would be living in a very different world. This is off topic but it has never made any sense to why the latter still accept the other's religion and aren't all atheists.
"Absolute power, corrupts absolutely."-
All of the forms of theism humanity has imagined containing a god or gods, seems to give a big hint on how any of us would behave if we were a god or the god.
Personally id be making new worlds all the time with different rules till i found one that worked well. Obviously it aint this one so if hes real hes starting over on a dustant world lol
Personally id be making new worlds all the time with different rules till i found one that worked well. Obviously it aint this one so if hes real hes starting over on a distant world lol
If I were an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god, and I wanted some people to worship me I would just skip the earth deal. I wouldn't want people who were just robots, and worshipped mindlessly though. But instead of actually making them live, and punishing eternally the ones who fail my test, since I am benevolent and love all my creatures, I would just only create the worthy ones in the first place. Anyone who I know would end up in hell, I would just spare them the trouble and not create them in the first place. So now I have a bunch of people and we all love each other and will be super happy forever, and no one suffered a day in their life. I would also throw in the knowledge of what it's like to suffer so they would have the appreciation for the good, but never make them actually experience it. But they wouldn't just worship me all the time. It would be something they wanted to do (because I only made the ones who would want to) often, but the rest of the time I could just watch them live and be happy. That would bring me way more happiness than non stop worship. I think I would rather have respect and appreciation than worship anyway.
I'd chill the fuck out n play playstation :D
.. nah seriously I have no idea really, but I would definitely do a lot more than all the gods that all theists combined believe in, which is of course a big fat fuck all!
This one reminded me of the famous Epicurus quote, which I'm sure you'll have heard but I'll repeat it anyway
.. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him a God?
- Epicurus
Id heard of that Epicurus but never seen it. Mostly i heard theists saying that its pathetic. From reading it, its likely because its perfect i see no argument against it and nor can they so they claim he was an ignorant savage.
First thing I would do is to remove the most evil thing in existence.
Death. A deadline on everything.
No death= more knowledge, no killing, you never suffer and see your loved ones leave you for ever.
Second thing;
I would remove the EVIL in everyone and make everybody keep his character anyway.
Everybody could live in peace and trust one another this way.
Third;
I would be with the people I love like a true father would.
The christian god is the exact opposite of those things with a cherry on top,
The eternal torture for a finite crime.
That raises the possibility if he exists that he cant do that. The bible says hes omnipotent but we already know there are lies in the book.