bpesta22
Cereal Killer
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If so, why? Does god need it to digest food?
An all powerful being should need no thing, including any thing listed in the four food groups.
God might eat stuff for pleasure, but he cannot eat to satisfy a need. The whole process of eating, however is driven by need. And, once we eat something, we then need other things to process that something; and then we need still other things to remove the waste that we cannot process further.
It's a viscious chain of neediness that seems very ungodlike:
-We need to eat so we can convert food to energy. An all perfect god, by definition, shouldn't need more energy.
-We need other muscles and organs that remove the food-waste that we couldn't process. Two problems here: (1) If god ate things, there would be no waste-- no unprocessed foods-- as waste implies imperfection. (2) As argued above, it's a moot point, as an all perfect god wouldn't *need a digestive system anyway.
I think it's clear that if god is all perfect, he neither defacates or urinates (on the bright side, god likely won't ever hassle us for leaving the seat up!).
So, god doesn't have a digestive system, but god supposedly created us in his image (Genesis, 1:24, "So god created man in his own image, in the image of god created he him; male and female..."). But, us god-made humans devote a large part of our bodies to the processing of foods; whereas, god does not need these things.
How can we be created in his image?
Does god bleed? That implies he can be cut. Does god have a circulatory system? That implies he needs air to replenish his blood. And, if he doesn't need his blood replenished, he also needs neither air, nor a set of lungs to breath it with.
What about a nervous system? A large part of human wiring is devoted to processing things that might harm us (i.e., by sending pain signals). No thing can harm the all powerful, and certainly god should not feel pain (pain implies something can hurt god). So neural wiring in an all poweful god is at best unnecessary and at worst a contradiction.
One last example: Do god's eyes work like ours? If so, god can only see a limited range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Ironically, there are other animals (god's lesser creations!) that can see better than us (and therefore better than god, whose eyes ours were fashioned from!).
I'd bet we can continue this thought experiment with every other biological sub-system that makes us human. Human's are some needy creations, and all of the biology that makes us human would be unnecessary or even contradictory if present in a being that was all powerful.
If god is indeed all powerful, he'd can't possibly resemble anything remotely human.
An all powerful being should need no thing, including any thing listed in the four food groups.
God might eat stuff for pleasure, but he cannot eat to satisfy a need. The whole process of eating, however is driven by need. And, once we eat something, we then need other things to process that something; and then we need still other things to remove the waste that we cannot process further.
It's a viscious chain of neediness that seems very ungodlike:
-We need to eat so we can convert food to energy. An all perfect god, by definition, shouldn't need more energy.
-We need other muscles and organs that remove the food-waste that we couldn't process. Two problems here: (1) If god ate things, there would be no waste-- no unprocessed foods-- as waste implies imperfection. (2) As argued above, it's a moot point, as an all perfect god wouldn't *need a digestive system anyway.
I think it's clear that if god is all perfect, he neither defacates or urinates (on the bright side, god likely won't ever hassle us for leaving the seat up!).
So, god doesn't have a digestive system, but god supposedly created us in his image (Genesis, 1:24, "So god created man in his own image, in the image of god created he him; male and female..."). But, us god-made humans devote a large part of our bodies to the processing of foods; whereas, god does not need these things.
How can we be created in his image?
Does god bleed? That implies he can be cut. Does god have a circulatory system? That implies he needs air to replenish his blood. And, if he doesn't need his blood replenished, he also needs neither air, nor a set of lungs to breath it with.
What about a nervous system? A large part of human wiring is devoted to processing things that might harm us (i.e., by sending pain signals). No thing can harm the all powerful, and certainly god should not feel pain (pain implies something can hurt god). So neural wiring in an all poweful god is at best unnecessary and at worst a contradiction.
One last example: Do god's eyes work like ours? If so, god can only see a limited range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Ironically, there are other animals (god's lesser creations!) that can see better than us (and therefore better than god, whose eyes ours were fashioned from!).
I'd bet we can continue this thought experiment with every other biological sub-system that makes us human. Human's are some needy creations, and all of the biology that makes us human would be unnecessary or even contradictory if present in a being that was all powerful.
If god is indeed all powerful, he'd can't possibly resemble anything remotely human.
ty his Universe is, I'd have to say it's obvious he has one.
