WOTMQ: Disproving God
I think I've come up with a novel argument regarding God's goodness and His omnipotence. It regards time travel. You'll have to let me know if you're heard anyone mention this or something like it before. I've been reading stuff in this on the subject for decades now, and I don't remember seeing or hearing anything like it. But I'll be 54 next month and my memory is sh&#, so who knows? Again, let me know.
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You might want to take a look at Kurt Vonnegut's "Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons," if you haven't read it already. It's been decades since I read it, but I do recall he wrote about God and the sort of mistakes that were easy for an omnipotent being to correct.
It seems like a solid argument..I'd be curious how Theologians might rebut! And it would make a great Sci Fi story..Oh OH or an excellent Mr. Deity!!! Get crackin Bri *LOL*
If the naked Emperor were really all-powerful and timeless, why didn't he zap back to Zarahemla and tell Jesse NOT to end his sample prayer for the Nephites with "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever, amen" —since he never uttered that doxology in his Sermon on the Mount when alive in Israel. Could've saved Mormon apologists a lot of tap-dancing to explain how and why it ended up in "Another Testament."
I think we should take this approach more (they do!), which is to accept all of their claims and then ask straightforward questions. Such as: if their god is all-powerful and all-knowing, why does he need helpers/messengers (angels, seraphim, cherubim, etc.)? A god you can create hundreds of billions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars and planets in one day, by thought alone, surely could accomplish any task he wanted done without a helper. The act of explaining the task to the helper is more effort that doing the task himself. And how can He brook any opposition when He knows their plans and can thwart them with mere thoughts? A Final War at Armageddon? I want to be on the side with the guy who knows all of the plans and can make all of his enemies vanish or move them into the Sun with just a thought, don't you?
What does God need with a starship? - Kirk
Maybe we are just not on the timeline where He made those corrections.