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What is the mentality of God?

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able or willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

As it seems that god not only allows but ensures the creation of insanity, war, destruction, then what was it that made God cruel?

If he was there at the beginning, did he leave us to our own devices, and we are as unsupervised children running amok in his name though he gives us no eyes or ears?

Are we set to a machine of his divine hand, everything is as he wants and it will only be his will that is done?

Or is it true that the randomness or reality created us for nothing from nothing?

Or do we not understand it at all, that the God we believe in and have been told of, those of us who believe and listened, is not the actual true face of God?

Is it his will, he who has killed the most of his children compared to anything throughout history?

Is God truly a kind god, or just a god?

Please help this wayward son understand. And please refrain from the "Faith is not knowing, but believing."

Update:

@Techwing: I'm confused by your usage of "constrained", "constraint", and "stuck."

I have reread my question repeatedly and do not understand where I have said "God is bound to time."

Are you saying that God wouldn't have the same mentality over his years, if he exist within an area that has years, changing gradually the thoughts he possess? His grand plan alters over time?

And I'm not trying to challenge God, or defeat him, or prove his existence. I just want to understand how he thinks, if he thinks, for he has put such comprhensible ability in our hands, hasn't he?

Update 2:

@ Zaphod: So, God is chaotic and unpredictable, speeding away from his surroundings at ever increasing speeds?

@ EW: Scripture says that God is Living, Infinite Truth and God made man in His own image and likeness. Man is therefore made in the image and likeness of Living, Infinite Truth in the same way as a child is made in the image and likeness of his father. In this way we differ from the rest of creation and it would seem that our make-up has at least as much in common with the nature of God as it has with creation. I agree with you in that sense. But is the compiled nature of humanity truly exact to that of God, or is he erratic in varying forms over brief periods of activity?

Update 3:

@ Zaphod: So, God is chaotic and unpredictable, speeding away from his surroundings at ever increasing speeds?

@ EW: Scripture says that God is Living, Infinite Truth and God made man in His own image and likeness. Man is therefore made in the image and likeness of Living, Infinite Truth in the same way as a child is made in the image and likeness of his father. In this way we differ from the rest of creation and it would seem that our make-up has at least as much in common with the nature of God as it has with creation. I agree with you in that sense. But is the compiled nature of humanity truly exact to that of God, or is he erratic in varying forms over brief periods of activity?

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  • e w
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Perhaps this quote can help to explain:

    "If god created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

    -------------------VOLTAIRE

  • Techwing
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Your mistake is in assuming that the supreme being is constrained in time. But time is a creation of the supreme being, not a constraint upon it, and so it is independent of time. The paradoxes you cite all seem like paradoxes simply because they incorrectly assume that the supreme being is stuck in time. Remove the time constraint, and the paradoxes disappear.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    you may communicate approximately god in non secular boards, they choose to right here approximately it. Nature (or your god) will create each little thing, each little thing that would ensue will, it is not significant if any of that's ever forgiven (whether that's extra constructive ) and then each little thing gets destroyed. we are only noise from the peanut gallery attempting to get a handle on it without resorting to superstition and a Zombie god who rose from the ineffective.

  • Zaphod Beeblebrox
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    If you were to adopt the view that God is the universe itself and not separate from it, the answers to all your questions would become much clearer to you.

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