Would an Omnipotent being have a Need/Want to do ANYTHING?

[marketandchurch]

God doesn't need our anything. Every commandment or prohibition in the Torah, to be worth it's weight, is fully for our benefit, not God's. To suggest that God needs acknowledgment by Prayer is to suggest a weak, immature God. We anthropomorphize God for own benefit, to better relate to this invisible unknowable untouchable, but that composite of God is not only a poor composite of the creator of everything, but never does the Torah suggest it to begin with.

[FarWanderer]

[Replying to bluethread]

Because Jesus Christ is a person. A God that simply behaves randomly and without willful intent is not even a theistic God, but a pantheistic or deistic one.

[help3434]

[Replying to post 29 by bluethread]

No, the question in the OP is why would a perfect diety create anything, not how could there be a diety.

[dianaiad]

That thought itself was a prefect thought as all thoughts are perfect. But being a question it was without an answer. God wanted to know that answer.

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Wow. If you truly believe that, then you had me fooled. You must be an Athiest on here being sarcastic. pretending to be a Religious person!



If not, then how do you NOT see that statement as being Contrary to an "All Knowing" being!???

I mean, how can you say he had a question...........WITHOUT AN ANSWER!!???? THAT is NOT an ALL KNOWING being! All Knowing means he knows EVERYTHING. There is NOTHING he does not know. That is one part of being Omnipotent!


Again I say, I'm not sure if you are being serious with that statement.


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DI is yankin' your chain, to an extent. Read some of his other posts, they're bloody everywhere . He sometimes likes to point to the absurdity of the biblical god.

lol! I knew it was suspicious that he was replying to this question with so much Respect!! I said in a previous post that I was SHOCKED that a religious person wasn't doing the usual, that being ATTACKING me for even thinking of Questioning his "God"! lol!! Boy do they get Mad!! lol!!

You'd think religious people would be the nicest, more respectful people alive......but the opposite is true.



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Well, I find that atheists, who pride themselves on logic and civil discourse, tend to be civil only to atheists, and reserve logic to their own; they seem to feel that it is just ducky to demand logic FROM theists, but neglect to use it themselves. Theists are not, in their view, worth the trouble.

There. We have now traded silly generalities, mine exactly as accurate as was yours.

One thing I will say...an old saying of my grandmother:

If you slug someone in their bruised shoulder, don't complain if they hit back.

In other words, bud, if you want to be treated with courtesy, use some. Consider that in THIS forum, for instance, the theists are vilified, condescended to, insulted, derided and ridiculed. Constantly. Some threads are begun with anti-theist thoughts, and filled with posts FROM atheists patting each other on the back; the ratio of theist to atheist response in some of those threads is very low.

....and when one DOES show up, and perhaps objects to the tenor of the discourse found, s/he is pounded on.

Why don't you figure that HERE, in this forum, you are starting new? That no theist here has insulted you? That (though this may be too late already) that you could begin by being courteous, and refrain from making "oh, yeah, no theist can possibly be kind, or courteous, or worth talking to because of course theists are idiots" type comments until after more than two or three have attacked you FIRST?

Just a thought.

As for me, I tend to be reactionary. That is, courtesy gets courtesy from me, and I generally do not insult where no insult was given first.

Try that.

[instantc]

So the question in the OP: Is your "god" All Powerful, All Knowing, and Perfect in every way? Is it Omnipotent? Is yes, then why would it of made ANYTHING, since it would've lacked Nothing??

Why cannot an omnipotent being desire a loving relationship with other beings?

[Goat]

So the question in the OP: Is your "god" All Powerful, All Knowing, and Perfect in every way? Is it Omnipotent? Is yes, then why would it of made ANYTHING, since it would've lacked Nothing??

Why cannot an omnipotent being desire a loving relationship with other beings?

Why would an omnipotent being threaten with 'the lake of fire' if you don't believe in him?

[instantc]

An Omnipotent being having a Desire means it's NOT Omnipotent! What don't people understand this??
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Because it's nonsense, there's nothing in omnipotence that prevents one from having desires. At least you haven't demonstrated that. Try making an argument instead of an assertion.