God made a way at great cost to Himself- the only thing He asks us to do is believe through faith... As Occam's Razor says- who has something to lose here? Those who believe or those who don't?
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"God made a way at great cost to Himself- the only thing He asks us to do is believe through faith..."
If something that has 'a great cost' to God, then that doesn't say much for his own omnipotence. Omnipotent = infinite power. If he requires 'faith' from we mere mortals, then, if anything, that makes the answer to the old philosophical question 'Did God create Man., or did Man create God?' lean more towards the latter half of such.
Thus I'm afraid your God has more to fear from Occam's Razor. And thus he loses Pascal's Wager from the start.
See you at the bookies. Or the barbers, kerri.
“God made a way at great cost to Himself-"
“the only thing He asks us to do is believe through faith...”
“As Occam's Razor says- who has something to lose here? Those who believe or those who don't?”
Those who believe stand to lose their power over a world we know exists, the power to negate the reason and morality of other believers by invoking God’s name to excuse plainly monstrous acts that reason cannot justify or conscience condone, to police individuals on ever-shifting “moral” grounds and enforce an artificial societal norm conditioning them to fear and judge their neighbours excusing any manner of harm that befalls them obligating no equality or justice and in doing so making it by degrees easier to subject “the true believers” to the same treatment with little justification ensuring totalitarian control so that nobody questions subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in what “God” commands and considers moral. The treatment of those in need and strangers in foreign lands, for a rather glaring example. Those who disbelieve only stand to be judged in an afterlife we do not know exists, by a judge we do not know exists, but if the insistence of Their followers is to be believed the quality of one’s character has no bearing on judgment and even escaping damnation through the constant shifting politicized blind adherence to mortals claiming the authority of God heaven would simply be a prison of fear and forced reverence to an egotistical monster until they are inevitably offended or bored and damn you anyways.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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