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Originally Posted by Sir Brass  I know what God says on the issue, and since He's God, I believe Him. |
God talks to you? Be careful who you let in on that...
I think what you meant to say is "I know what some publisher printed that some editor assembled that some Church voted to approve at a convention that some long dead guy told some other long dead guy told some other long dead guy that God said about the issue when he told him back before we even had the capacity to dream of the subject in question."
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Originally Posted by Sir Brass Why? God won't allow it. God won't allow Himself to be mocked and let the mocker get away with it. |
Assuming the whole "God" argument is moot and there in fact is one, why is humanity evolving to the point where it can duplicate a feat of God a mockery? Do you think God created Man to just hang around the Garden nekkid never to become anything more? Do you believe that God making a Man who could eventually become God-like in and of his own ingenuity is an affront to God, or a testament to God's power?
To assume that the creation of a sentient being (with a soul if you must) is God's ultimate achievement is to ascribe a limitation to God's power, which puts the whole omnipotence feature of God in question. Since God's power is supposedly infinite, accomplishment of a finite feat is by definition less power than God can have, so what point is there to not allowing His creations to do something similar? Why not say mastering fire is an affront to God, or walking erect?
Not to mention, you're heading down the path of the jealous pissy Old Testament God who is so insecure that he requires his inferior creations to periodically tell him how awesome he is and gets uncomfortable when they do something that smacks of something he did before or exercise the Free Will that He bestowed upon them. Is God the Smart Parts of deities who will sue you upside the head with a lightning bolt so he can have a monopoly on making intelligent organisms?