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ChatGPT wrote this: https://www.tiktok.com/@kristi.burke/video/7226117968655027502 I hope God has some sort of good argument for all this mess. An apology would be appreciated, but I know He's too stubborn to admit that He's wrong, so I'd settle for an explanation. Watch the video (it's...

I don't know what church you attended, but there is no such custom, as far as I know. The most I could find was kissing the priest's hand after he has blessed you, which can be done without touching his hand with your lips. There is no ring involved...

The what? I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.

If the existence of free will is the cause of suffering and there is no other way to avoid this, then in that situation I do think that free will is a bad thing. If humans being robotic beings with no ability to make decisions would mean that no one experiences any suffering at all, then I'm all...

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Those are the tools that God has given us. If we can't use logic to understand God, then we might as well not try to understand Him at all, which goes against what Jesus invited us to do: seek and you shall find, ask and it shall be answered to you; and against what God told the Israelites...

Your accusations are quite frankly insulting, as you either: 1. know nothing about my interests and past endeavors related to seeking God or 2. know about them from my post history, yet somehow disregard them for reasons that I don't understand. The God you seem to present in your replies is a...

That is simply incorrect. It's not my understanding of logic. It's textbook logic. Ask any professor of logic and philosophy. Again, I do accept the idea of a greater good, even of a incredibly great good. Even if said greater good is great enough to deserve the most horrible suffering...

Your example is not very relevant because: - your friend's manager was not omnipotent, so he had to obey whatever existing laws that were beyond his powers to change; - your friend was allowed to quit his job and seek a new one in any other field, or even to start his own company. The fact that...

Then it is impossible to have any sort of interaction with such a Being because we don't have a common ground for reality assessment.

I'm sorry, but that's all you're understanding. That's not all I'm saying at all. It is irrelevant whether I agree with the way God does things. I'm merely pointing out that a God Who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent is illogical considering that there is suffering in the world. It...

Any reason that an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God might have would be achieved without the suffering. Yes, I cannot imagine said reason, and I don't need to imagine it. If said reason exists, no matter what it might be, said goal is achievable, if God is all-powerful, with or without the...

That is not a good objection to God being all-powerful because the request is irrational. To say that there is an all-powerful God is to say that there cannot coherently be an object so large that He can't move. In an universe in which there is an unstoppable force, there, by definition, cannot...

This is about following logic, not my personal opinion. I don't understand why you keep misunderstanding this. It's not about what I think God should do, but rather about what the basic rules of logic dictate. Unless, of course, you claim that God's morality allows Him to defy logic, case in...

Why did the works of God have to be manifest in that man (or any other disabled people)? Whatever the reason might be, if God is omnipotent, then that same reason could be achieved in a way that did not involve suffering. Some apologists give examples like this: you can't have healing if...

No, I would not have to find the reason. Whatever the reason might be, no matter how glorious it may be, if God is omnipotent, then He could achieve that same reason without the suffering, and if He was omnibenevolent, it would be logically impossible for Him to choose the path with the suffering.

I'm not following. Of course He can be omnipotent and allow evil to exist. However, He can't also be all-good and all-knowing at the same time.

The definition of omnipotence means that He can achieve any goals in any way. That is what being all-powerful means. The definition of all-good means seeking the optimum state for all creation at all time. The two are mutually exclusive in a world in which evil exists. If God bases His actions...

How could it mess it up? Does the fact that God is also present everywhere invalidate the fact that He could achieve the same goals with or without suffering? @Lamb, could you edit the poll and the title and add the fourth attribute?

Why do apologists talk about the tri-omni of God if there are four attributes?