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Why does God get angry?

So when does a so-called god need anger already?

Paul

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Nothing like hearing people of a lesser so-called god, defend it.
 
Marc L said:
The anger that the OT god displays, of course, is bad anger. He doesn't like how his creations are behaving, so he wipes them out, brings disease upon them, or tosses them into a lake of fire.
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As I wrote earlier: a clear case of extra-celestial belligerence.

'Luthon64
 
kmortis said:
I can help you stage it.

We can cast Pete Postlethwaite as God, computer generated images of Herve Villachez as King Fausto of the 8th Trailer Park, Sean Hayes as Gay-briel the questionable neighbor and Ned Beatty as Beelzebubbah.
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Beelzebubbah, without ever being written, just became my favorite literary figure. :D

Also, Paul raises a valid question. Why anger, if you're omnipotent? Why not go *poof* change behavior? Does The Bible ever mention anything about free will? Or is that simply a theological rationalization?
 
"Free will" does not equal "He has a plan"

Paul

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Or "When it is your time to go"
 
Paulhoff said:
"Free will" does not equal "He has a plan"

Paul

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Or "When it is your time to go"
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Right, I guess I kinda segued that inside my head sans explanation. What I meant was the typical explanation for why god has to get angry with his creations is that he gave his creations free will. So, I was wondering if that was a big thing in the bible or if it was just rationalization of an unpleasant point about an omni-everything god.
 
Posted many times by me.

Religious free-will does not exist. If a God is all-knowing and so knows what you are going do, there is no free-will. If you are punished for doing something that is a so-called sin, and he knows you are going to do because you are imperfect because he made you that way, then there is no free will.
With true free-will there can be no punishment, with punishment there is no true free-will.
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Paul

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Religious free-will does not exist. If a God is all-knowing and so knows what you are going do, there is no free-will. If you are punished for doing something that is a so-called sin, and he knows you are going to do because you are imperfect because he made you that way, then there is no free will.
With true free-will there can be no punishment, with punishment there is no true free-will.
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Yeah, basically. The whole thing is pretty circular (sin, free will, etc, not your post.)
 
Glen.Nogami said:
Beelzebubbah, without ever being written, just became my favorite literary figure. :D

Also, Paul raises a valid question. Why anger, if you're omnipotent? Why not go *poof* change behavior? Does The Bible ever mention anything about free will? Or is that simply a theological rationalization?
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On the few occasions that I get asked "What's the good word?" I generally resond with "Beelzebubbah". I get the weirdest looks.

Ya know, I have no idea if Free Will is ever actually mentioned. It is implied in that Adam and Eve could "choose" to eat the Forbidden Fruit or not, the Hebrews could build the Golden Calf or not. But then we have examples of Gunderscored's direct veto of FW; re: Pharoah's atherosclerosis.

Golly, could the Bible give us confusing and contradictory passages on such an important concept? Oh deary me. Who'da thunk it?
 
Kurious Kathy has gone quiet. D'ya think she's sitting in a corner, re-reading her bible? Preparing to try and answer the unanswerable with some more tripe?
 
T'ai Chi said:
Why would you go, especially literally, from stories written about peoples' perceptions of god(s)?

But one could just say the exact same thing about no god(s). Watch:

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Why is the evolution-driven universe so angry? Evolution is the most biologically powerful thing we know of, and it has the power to stop all the bad things that harm humans, so why after all of these billions of years has the bad stuff not been evolved away?

Right from the start, modern humans evolved with many malfunctions. Why is evolution punishing us?
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(Just so TC doesn't feel left out)

Apples and mangoes.

T'ai Chi said:
Why is the evolution-driven universe so angry?
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No one says that an evolution-driven universe is angry except you.

T'ai Chi said:
Evolution is the most biologically powerful thing we know of, and it has the power to stop all the bad things that harm humans, so why after all of these billions of years has the bad stuff not been evolved away?
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The H. Sapiens line has not, repeat not been evolving for billions of years. Life on earth, yes, but not humans. And the 'bad stuff' is evolving away, in a way. Our immune systems are improving. Our digestive systems adapt (including the billions of bacteria lining our gut). But the 'bad stuff', such as viruses and harmful bacteria, are also evolving.

If there is a god, why do we poop? Why do we not have 100% efficiency in our digestive tracts?

No one anthropomorphizes evolution. Apples and mangoes.


T'ai Chi said:
Right from the start, modern humans evolved with many malfunctions.
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Define 'start' as you relate it to 'modern humans'. The 'malfunctions' are hold-overs.

T'ai Chi said:
Why is evolution punishing us?
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Evolution is improving us.
 
HeyLeroy said:
If there is a god, why do we poop? Why do we not have 100% efficiency in our digestive tracts?
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This is a very good question. There are animals with digestive systems that are far more efficient. Off of the top of my head, IIRC, are snakes and crocodiles. Their poop is low in nutrients whereas human poop is nutrient rich. Perhaps god was trying to confuse us or maybe it was some kind of a joke.
 
RandFan said:
This is a very good question. There are animals with digestive systems that are far more efficient. Off of the top of my head, IIRC, are snakes and crocodiles. Their poop is low in nutrients whereas human poop is nutrient rich. Perhaps god was trying to confuse us or maybe it was some kind of a joke.
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And then there's the old joke about the sewage system being built right in the middle of the entertainment system.....
 
RandFan said:
I'm not so sure. I would say evolution is changing us. If it does improve us we can survive. If it doesn't we will go the way of so many other species.
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Well, the appendix is going away. I think we are improving, but that's just one hairless beach ape's opinion. Our survival as a species depends as much as how we use these powerful brains we've evolved as how our meat-casings adapt.

kmortis said:
And then there's the old joke about the sewage system being built right in the middle of the entertainment system.....
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:D KMo, you're one of the funniest people on this forum, and your contributions in this thread are setting new benchmarks.

ONWARD TO 10,000!
 
I am married to an Italian American so in a way I can say this, “god is an Italian, who else would put the eating place so close to the crapper”.

Paul

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RandFan said:
I'm not so sure. I would say evolution is changing us. If it does improve us we can survive. If it doesn't we will go the way of so many other species.
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What was it, 99% of all species that have existed that went extinct? Pretty crappy odds. And I think evolution does, essentially by definition, "improve" us, insofar as "improvement" means readjusting for better survivability. The reason species go extinct, I believe, is that they did not evolve well and/or quickly enough.
 
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