Blast from the Past! The Epicurean paradox from 300 BC!

[rhinefire]

Psalms 53:1: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”

A greater fool, yet, is the one arrogantly presumes to cast adverse judgement against God, based on his own ignorance.

And a person of "faith" berating people that do not believe. My favorite saying about the concept of a God is......"prove it".

 

[celticwar17]

Here's more proof that religion set back civilization for thousands of years. The question about gods was posed by Epikouros (better spelling than the Epicurus on comon websites) around 300 B.C.

NO ONE supporter of deism was ever able to respond to this question since Epikouros posed it. Here it is:

"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 nor willing? Then why call him God?" — 'the Epicurean paradox'. "

That's the proof there are no gods.

Hmm I think you are having the assumption that a God's consciousness is like ours.

A God is an ideal, an aspect, and just is what it is...not human. A God does what it does and nothing else,it doesn't intentionally intervene or contemplate decisions.
Some Physicist believe in a God of Order and one of Chaos.

A God doesn't have to be the Protestant personal God that just seems to be a perfect all-knowing human.

 

[RAMOSS]

How ironic, because that is what Reagan did all the time, with his voodoo economics.