So this “grand cosmic plan” seems to involve a lot of everyone having to tell god how great he is every day… Sounds like a certain deity has some crippling self confidence issues
The seraphim, the highest order of angels and those closest to God (at least in the Christian interpretation) only exist to tell God how great he is:
six-winged beings that fly around the Throne of God crying “holy, holy, holy”.
He’s paying some dudes just to hang around and polish his ego.
IF- and this ‘if’ is doing a lot of work here, god exists… then the ‘plan’ is to LARP as the White Knight.
remember, the whole sin thing started with Adam and Even in the garden. any one who has ever raised kids, or pets more interesting than a yeast starter… knows that you put two pets in a yard, tell them they can do whatever, except eat from two plants…
… they’re gonna eat from two plants.
Original sin was a setup. When a child burns their hand on the stove you told them not to touch, you don’t condemn them to hell for it. Also, why did you leave the stove on and leave the kid unattended? Also, why would you punish their descendants for the sins of their parents? Also, why did you invent hell, the stove, and the temptation? “Free will” is a bullshit answer for an omniscient being who knows what’s going to happen.
Trying to get a good sourdough starter going has been one of the most infuriating things I’ve done. I’ve managed it once, only for it to die to mold. Dogs at least will bug you for thing they need eventually.
Just in case you wanna give it a go
You can also hit them up for support from chat or phone.
Edit to add, if anyone else has a starter, I highly recommend their popovers as something to try with discards. They’re amazing. (Alternatively, for breakfast the waffles/pancake batter,)
I mean, would it contradict anything if God didn’t have free will?
Then god is an automaton. A machine. It is arguably not the most perfect beautiful thing that can exist.
Also, humans were made to his likeness, and humans have (per Bible) free will.
humans were made to his likeness, and humans have (per Bible) free will
Your reasoning is backwards here, isn’t it? Essentially it’s saying “If we were made in God’s image, then God must look like exactly like us” is it not?
The argument of the cosmic plan is the reasons are beyond human understanding
The child that died slowly and painfully from a horrible disease, died for a reason. God willfully did/allowed it, but for a reason we just are unable to understand. So to a thiest this meme doesn’t make sense.
Mind you I don’t believe in this stuff but these kind of jabs are just preaching to the athiest choir.
For a nice read on the logic of free will, written by logician Raymund Smullyan, here’s ‘is God a taoist?’:
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html
