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Well omniscience is all knowing and omnipotence is all powerful. If a being is all knowing, then frankly nothing you do is unknown before it happens, therefore it isn't free will at all, but a script in someone being's head.
since God knows everything that will occur, why in the world let billions live and die an eternal death, according to christianity, when he knows who will serve him and be with him eternally in heaven? Why not just create those few and not subject the other few billion humans and whoever else it's created to an eternity of torment?
That is not the workings of a compassionate and caring god. If I'm a parent and I know 100% absolutely positively that the child I'm going to father will be a child molester, rapist, murderer, and any other terrible thing you can think of, and in the end be put into a never ending sentence of torture by the state, would I allow that child to be born? No.
A God that knows that I would not follow its beliefs, i.e. believing in it as the ultimate god that I should worship, should have never allowed me or any of the other billions of humans who don't believe, and have not believed throughout the ages, live in the first place.
To not subject us to an eternity of torment for simply choosing to not worship it. That would be compassionate would it not? If anything, torturing all those lives for choosing not to worship that god seems petty. "Oh you don't want to worship me? You don't want to acknowledge me as head honcho? You're gunna burn!"
Omniscience is not directly stated in the bible, but it is certainly there.
pax said:Well omnipresence isnt necessarily omniscience. Being in my head at the time I take a decision doesnt mean he knows what choice Ill make when I hit an event that demands I make some choice about it.
For ex: How can God know Im going or not going to war with China next year if even I dont know.
noko said:Very clearly Jehovah did not know but had to check the condition of Sodom. Meaning Omnisicience (knowing all) is not true. Also omnipresence as in being everywhere is also disproved since Jehovah had to go down and see.
Be careful what you believe, to believe Jehovah is Omnisicience means he knew of all the evil present and recorded in history before it happened and purposely planned for it. That is not indicated by the Bible as far as I can tell.
So not existing because you don't want to worship God is an injustice, but suffering for all of eternity afterward isn't?
All of this in the eyes of a God that knew from the very beginning what would happen to billions of souls?
An all knowing, all powerful, compassionate God would have made creation perfect from the beginning so billions of souls wouldn't have to experience torture and death and suffering.
God made us in his image so our lack of compassion surely must be present in god otherwise it wouldn't be there in us .You seems to concentrate alot on God's compassion.
All the torture, death and suffering in this world, happens because of the lack of compassion, between humans.
God is compassionate toward those who are humble. Humility for the creature is the truth. Is the order of things. God is truth. When creature is prideful, it disrupt the order of things, and God will fix that by making humble that creature.
So if eternal suffering, is the only way for a creature to be humble, that's the way it will be. So its all well and good. So its not a matter of suffering, but being humble and truthful.
...not to belittle or prejudge you or anything, as this is a rather intelligent post, but every Jehovah's Witness I know IRL is scaaaaaaaaaaaary. o.o
noko said:I am not a Jehovah's Witness nor was I ever a Jehovah's Witness in respects to the organization called by that. Jehovah is the English name for the Almighty God thought to be pronouced Yahweh or Yah in Hebrew. The english word Jehovah has been around much longer then the organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses. Sorry I thought I will clarify this, anyways:
In the Bible it is very clear that Jehovah does not know everything, the example I gave above is only one instance. Of course one could speculate the nature of God anyway they want, but being true or not is a different matter.