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The Straight Story

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9. Problem is, we tend to define god by our own selves

Mon Apr 2, 2012, 10:41 AM

Apr 2012

IE we create him/her in our own minds and then say "Well, if I was god here is how I would handle it all".

Looking over the history of the human race things we did at one time make no sense now (and probably vice versa).

There are some things god cannot do (make a rock so big he cannot lift it, lie, etc and so on) - so god is limited in many ways by his own admission/"heavenly physics". Killing off satan right off the bat could make things 10 times worse for all we know.

And here, on earth, we are like gods to all the animals and to those in the past with all of our technology.

Yet look at us and how we use our power.

I'm not gonna criticize god until we use our own power to get shit straight.

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So is the difference when someone is physically harming someone else? trotsky Apr 2012 #23

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