I think of God as my Father.
Thereby, I imitate Him to the best of my abilities. He helps me out a lot, teaches me a lot of things. Also knows I've got to fall down and get up a couple of times in order to really learn. If He made all my troubles go away I'd never have a chance to actually mature.

That is a good way to look at it. Since my father did provide me with some genetic code, I can buy that.

Look at it this way, if you had all the power in the universe, knew everything, and could make anything happen, wouldn't you be lazy too? If you were all knowing and all doing, all you can do is be lazy, because there would be nothing else for you to know or get done; hence, eternal bordom.

That's why you talk with your kids.

free will

If I were God, I would not be nice or benevolent. I would be small, petty mean and cruel. And I would demand virgin sacrifices. And there would be no France.

I would be like Ares or Apollo or one of the cool old gods, except you know... minus the inbreeding.

How about the bestiality?

I really like what Daishi and a few others have contributed. I believe the Universe is an orderly, fair, open system, and God can intervene, and man can interrupt.

-jesse

"God does not exist; he withdraws, gets the fuck out, and leaves the cops to keep an eye on things." ~Antonin Artaud "The Artaud Anthology"

Not True he can creat things and he also has to deal with things on earth. Why would he want to just sit around. I know when i am bored I go find somthing worth while to do (or somtimes not so worth while)

Like a few of the others, I'm just going to stick with this (because even if "God" isn't lazy, I sure as hell am):

Come on, guys... this is on like an eighth-grade level of reasoning, here. Seriously. Anyone who has passed introductory philosophy should be capable of more than what's in most of these posts.

Nothing personal, but geez...

I never went to College thanks.

College is for the uneducated.

I would like to go to college when I am older for fun and just take classes I am interested in and not worry about Credits and all that. Hopfully I will have enough money and time once my kids are grown to do that!

Foiled Withers!

Foiled Withers Again.

there is no god EOS.

I thought you said you were agnostic?

wheeee!!!

used to lean toward agnostic, lately been feeling a lot more atheist

I think we need to do an argument proof and get all this flim flam opinion bias out of the way

Jason -- are you saying you're going to prove God exists to me?

<rubs hands in anticipation>

Not exactly what I had in mind.

If think if I attempted it, that would quite a proof.

I was actually referring to a proof of argument validity as to whose argument was the strongest based on premises presented.

But now that you mention it Lane I might consider it.

*Goes about the impossible