God paradoxes!

Originally posted by: PhoeniXof_Hades

#1: If God created everything, who created God? Surely, if the universe, being so complicated and complex needs to have an intelligent/conscious/sentient designer in order to exist, then God, being an even more complex entity cannot be self-existent?

It is the problem of the human mind to think of everything in terms of creation and destruction. Everything must have finite beginnings and end. Well God is everything from absolute zero and infinity. The whole world exists within God and God exists within the world. The question of creating God should not even arise as God is an infinite entity that can neither be created or destroyed, that is neither existent nor non existent.

#2: If God created everything, and have knowledge over every single happenings in the universe - of past, present and future - then is he not to be blamed for the misfortunes and sufferings of the world?

See if the programmer created a program, but you downloaded a virus that crashed it....why blame the programmer. God is the sustaining force through which the world exists. Stop blaming God if you cannot feel the force.

#3: Can an entity be omnipotent and omni-benevolent at the same time? If He is omnipotent, why does he not eliminate evils and sufferings from the world? Is He incapable of doing so? If so, then He isn't omnipotent. Is He capable and yet do not? Then He isn't omni-benevolent.

The Force has the infinite wisdom to know that eliminating all evils and sufferings is not the way to be benevolent and loving. The force has the infinite wisdom to know that benevolence lies in duality and seeking harmony between the dark and the light.

#4: Assuming God exists, and is omnipotent, why would He, being so great and immense in all respect, care for such small, insignificant creatures like us? And then reserve place in the Hell or Heaven?

I think people are just self important bozos who think they are so loved by God and have a place reserved in heaven. I'm sure if the force had human qualities that we keep assigning to the force for no logical reason the force would be ROTFL at the self important delusions humans have.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I think the paradox is that I find most intriguing is the free will paradox. If God knows everything, God knows the future. If the future is known, that means it is determined. If the future is determined we have no free will. If we have no free well then it is pointless to do anything conscientiously. Even faith or no faith in God is pointless because or inclination is determined.

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

That is quite intriguing, I agree. I've spent one two many times dwelling on that one. However, I think that although God knows everything, he has left it upon us to make the choice between right and wrong--its depend on your standing point...Cos Right n wrong not stable,its change the way you think😃if someone want to dicide absolutly....then that person is paralized ...😊.. As we make these choices in life, our future builds based upon these choices. Although God is omnipotent, he has given us the power to design our own future, whatever it may be. Again, purely a matter of faith.

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

Labib, the biggest problem here is that religion or better yet, faith, does not have a scientific theory towards everything. You cannot answer these questions or solve these mysteries through logical evidence. The first thing that you would need in order to answer these questions is faith. If you look at these questions through my perspective, they all have answers, and the only reason that those answers make sense to me is because I hold I certain beliefs.

I always say that as humans, our biggest strength is the power to believe. If we put our mind to it, we can convince ourselves of anything and everything. Right or wrong, logical or illogical, if we believe it then it must be true.

Now you're probably saying that this is a typical answer, but I think that's the only answer. You can come up with such paradoxes and then ask yourself if the answer that you come up with also makes sense to you or not - and if it does then good, if it doesn't, then you need to rethink some things. But in the end, it again goes back to your faith, no one can convince you for or against any of these.

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

As far as why God, since he is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, does not fix everything and make life on earth perfect for all of us goes, well I think that also has an answer. God is omnipotent, but we are not. God has given us the power to choose between right or wrong, it is our choices that make us who we are (Do I sound like Albus Dumbledore now? 😆), and therefore, we ourselvese our responsible for any mishaps or any sufferings that we undergo in our lives.

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

But I personally believe that God is omnibenevolent, and therefore after every dark night, there is a promise of a bright morning that will bring with it sunshine to illuminate the darkness in our lives.

Originally posted by: *Woh Ajnabee*

That is quite intriguing, I agree. I've spent one two many times dwelling on that one. However, I think that although God knows everything, he has left it upon us to make the choice between right and wrong. As we make these choices in life, our future builds based upon these choices. Although God is omnipotent, he has given us the power to design our own future, whatever it may be. Again, purely a matter of faith.