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Another Christian contradiction, perhaps?
silly ol' man
post Apr 24 2007, 12:42 AM
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I'm pretty intrigued by this whole "let's try to poke holes in the Christian faith" fad, so I've tried one out myself! Here's my line of thought:
  • The Christian religion teaches that God is "perfect."
  • Perfection implies wholeness, thoroughness, completeness...
  • If God is perfect, he needs no ends because he is perfect, complete.
  • To say that he created us out of love, or boredom, etc., would deny his perfection because we would be means to those ends, which he didn't need in the first place.
  • Ergo, if God created us, there's two possibilities: 1) he's not perfect, 2) Christianity has yet another swiss cheese hole.
Discuss.

EDIT// There are also obvious imperfections in his creations, i.e., random deformations, stillborns, cancer, etc.. I'm not sure about this point, but it seems to have relevance at the moment.
 
 
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Laughsalot
post Apr 24 2007, 10:27 AM
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christianity has many swiss cheese holes. it's said that we were created in the image of god. perfection...well there is no actual definition of it. if you think about it carefully. or if you look at things at a different perspective. for example: us beings, animals, plants, etc.. is formed like phi. god i can't explain it. it's hard to explain. umm yah in a sense that's kinda like perfection cuz everything fits together so evenly and exaclty. if you think about it from another perspective,...we and everything could be magic. cuz if there is other life out there in the universe they could be alive but they would have a whole different mechanism for living. for example we live cuz we got lungs which help us breath oxygen. and we have a heart. well other aliens could like have a different mechanism. so it's kinda like magic how things are. maybe science is magic. cuz in the universe the aliens can have a different "law of physics". ya know? cuz this is our world and we have our own laws. but in different worlds out there there could be different laws. ok i don't know if this has to do with the topic but i felt dizty and wanted to say something
 

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