Reply #21: This is the quintessential "problem of evil" [View All]

[expatriot]

If God is omnipotent, having complete control over the universe He created, then everything he created and its actions are under His Control. If he knew the Omega before the Alpha, he knew full well the effects of all his creations, including Lucifer and what would happen in the Garden with the Tree. So he can not be omnipotent (all powerful) and a benevolent God at the same time.

If he truly is a benevolent God, then he is not the Master of the Universe.

Most people want it both ways. The way I see it, the only way that he would be worthy of my worship and respect if he DID exist were to be both. But if he is omnipotent and created the whole tragedy of humanity and the universe thing as some entertainment for himself like a kid with an ant farm then I say fuck him.

I have always said that if I knew by some divine sign or something like that that He existed as represented by the Bible I would surrender myself to a life of unselfish servitude and deny myself all earthly pleasures, eat bland food, have myself castrated and work tirelessly for the poor, etc. but every night I would go to my cot in the boiler room of some community center where i volunteered and CURSE Him and His Divinity. This would be done out of principle, that I would rather suffer an eternity in the tortures of hell while denying myself all carnal pleasure and mortal leisure than be rewarded with heaven for merely submitting to his Meglomaniac Design.