God is an intellect that can reason and he created man also an intellect that could reason with him. Wouldn't it make sence that God would make a means by which the two could reason directly together?
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God is intelligent and does reason with us through his word the bible.  There are accounts in the bible where he reasoned with people, for example the few men he communicated with directly.  Moses, Lot and Jesus all reasoned with God.  Moses spoke on behalf of the nation of Israel when they were continuously misbehaving and Moses reasoned on their behalf sparing their lives.  Lot reasoned with God (through his angelic messengers) when asking to hold off the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah if he could find at least 10 righteous men there, and Jesus reasoned with God when he spoke on behalf of men when he told God to "Forvige them for they know not what they do".
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If we could be good on our own power, we would be God.\n\nGod didn't make us just so that we would be weak. That is, this was not his aim. But what he created was people, not God. Why didn't he create God? Because there is only one God who exists outside of space and time--who always was, is, and will be--who IS, not who was created. Therefore, God cannot create God. What he made was a creature in his image, but who could not be him.\n\nGod takes no pleasure in our weakness. He has compassion for us because we are weak. This is why he sent our Son--that through Him, we might become perfect, not on our own power, but by the power of God.\n\nIn addition, God created within us the need for Himself. So that upon our constant failures, we would begin searching for the One who never fails.
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When I call something a fact it is not really a fact but rather an assumed fact.\n\nFact: God is defined as being greater than anything that can be imagined. ( The defined as is an important part of the proof)\n\nFact: God exists in understanding. (a person can imagine that a god exists)\n\nFact(dubious): If God exists in understanding, We can imagine him as greater if he exists in reality. ( The idea is if you imagine the great god as only existing in our imagination, and then imagine him existing in reality He would be greater in the case where he exists in reality.)\n\nNow here is the squeeze play. Go back to the definition of god as being greater than anything that can be imagined. Now of the two possibilities, that god exists only in our imagination, and God exists in reality, only the later that god exists in reality fits the definition of God, Therefore according to this logical construct God Must exists. I like to call this a logic box. You build parameter that insures an outcome that God exists. \n\nThe problem shows up in that are all the facts real, and also just because something can be logically shown to fit a definition is the definition true.
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To an extent.Obviously we wouldnt be here if we werent created,but for arguments sake,yes,it would be necessary to invent the idea of Him because all things lose meaning without faith in a Divine plan and purpose.
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NO ONE can answer this question except God!\n\nI believe:\nThe word God would not have been there if God didn't create humans, He created humans becoz this is what a God would do.
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I spent five years of my life trying to understand this andother parts of ideas like this.  And for all that searching, you come to realize that these is no absolute answers on a question like this.  However, you said you assume a God, one that created us.  From here on out is my thought process, no extra websites to look up, no extra references to any books.  \n\nWhy does one create,  and in God's case why did He create us?  Could it have been that it was a selfish act?  I don't believe it would be, since if it had been a selfish act why would we be given free will?  Free will gives us the right to do as we wish, if God had been looking for something solely for Him, He would have definately skipped the whole free will thing.  \n\nCould it have been that we were created for, and out of, love?  Our being so small, we couldn't hope to understand what God's condition was before the time of our creation, but we can assume that if He hadn't created anything yet that there was nothing there.  I don't know about you, but I would be darn lonely out there in a void of nothingness with not even a single thing to talk to.  In his wisdom, I am sure he wanted to have comapny, but company that would be itself and not something that would be a puppet.  He needed something that could experience things for itself, think for itself, love on its own terms and not on His.  I would be certain He could see that in creating something like this, there might have been the chance that it wouldn't choose to love Him.  The next obvious thought is make a lot of it, and I dare say He did, look at how many of us there are!  \n\nAnyway,  cutting a whole lot of details out,  God made us out of love so that we may love Him back.  Thats all He truely wants I believe, not that you go out and do these things this way and think that those guys over there are bad because they don't do it this way.  I think that He just wants our love, but He is a good enough person to give us the choice; to love Him or not.  If we have the choice of love or not,  then He couldn't be omniscient it would ruin the whole effect.  Even if he is omniscient, He could only see all our possible outcomes, not what we are going to choose, He'll have to wait with baited breath just like the rest of us.  \n\nI firmly believe that He is a lot more like a person you and I would be like than we give Him credit for.  He has feelings, He gets angry, sad, worried, feels love and pain as well.  Not in the same ways of course, He is a universial being and we're only little flesh and blood thingies right now.  But I say that He is waiting to see what all of us are going to decide about Him.  I say He's been one of the nicest people I've ever met, and I only met Him through a couple of books, a few other people, and just thinking about Him.  My mind bursts at the thought of a personal meeting one day.  \n\nAll in all, I think its up to you.  It sounds like you already have an answer.  I hope that maybe one day we can all know that God is a being of Love, and not debate the silly specifics about it. But I guess we'll see.  ^^\n\n(summary and disclaimers :P )\nGod is not omniscient.\nGod is a being of love.\nHe is waiting for us to decide if we like Him or not.\nI used He and Him just to keep it all simple and clean, I think that God is beyond gender or any qualifier that we have.  \nI also don't mean to attack any religion what-so-ever, because I think you are entitled to your beliefes, and I thank you for it because without it think how boreing all of us would be.  (gives me the chills thinking about a world where we're all the same.)\n\nSorry to ramble, and thanks for your time.  ^^
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Great question.\n\nOne could reason that God created man with the hope that he would not seek knowledge and learn the mysteries of the universe.  Adam was forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge.\n\nNothing in the Bible says anything about science or technology or anything to to with knowledge.  It sticks with human interactions and relationships with each other and God.  The commandments tell us how to act and what to do and not to do with respect to each other.  \n\nTo answer your question about how God wants us to deal with nuclear bombs, it is there in the commandments.  Thou shalt not kill.
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If god existed he had to be made of something. What???\nAtoms, Energy, or maybe some thing beyond our imaginations.\nIF IT WAS ENERGY or ATOMS THEN WHY IS HE SO DIFF RENT FROM US.\nNOW IF he was MADE OF SOMETHING EVEN BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS then there has to be someone who created those things which make god up.\nAND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD JUST HAPPENED TO EXIST, BELIEVE THAT GOD IS FUNDAMENTAL, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU what is the problem with treating the universe the same way ???
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I'll say some divine construct created the universe and as a by-product man, and afterwards man created "God" as to have a defined reference point for all things unexplainable, and as the ultimate "source".\n\nBy the way other responders, is it Christian to attack your fellows, just because they have questions? I don't the person asking is illiterate, but maybe there's some ignorance hovering around looking to strike at that which is different.\n\nLove and compassion are best lessons brought to Earth, best that you keep those closest to your heart and behavior. Wouldn't hurt for you to bow and ask for some humbleness.\nCheers!
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good question.  i had never thought about this before.  any operation would be going against the will of god, wouldn't it, starcameo?  if god had intended the person to be either male or female, god would have made them as such, right?  \n\njohn_killebrew: please explain how being self-aware proves the existence of god.
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Yes this is absolutely RATIONAL. \n\n========================\nlets see how it is rational and makes sense. \n\n1.Say, He is God, One and only. \n\nGod cannot be more than ONE because if there were many gods besides God, then there would not have been such order in the universe, and each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others. If there would have been many gods then each god would try to defeat others to establish his rule. \n\n(Quran 17:42-43) Say: If there had been (other) gods with Him, as they say,- behold, they would certainly have sought out a way to the Lord of the Throne! Glory to Him! He is high above all that they say!- Exalted and Great (beyond measure)! \n\n\n2. God, the Eternal, Absolute\n \n\nGod has to be Eternal then otherwise He would have a beginning. Suppose, we say God had a beginning, then there was a time when God did not exist. It means that he needed somebody else to make him exist. So there is somebody else who is God, not him. but as we agreed that there is only one God, therefore, there is no one else who make Him exist. When we say that God cannot be born, we are also saying that a creator cannot becomes his creation, because creation means what is in need of a creator. To be a creature, mean there had to be someone to create you. So if God becomes his creation, it means now he is in need of a creator. And this is absudity! As we know, A creation is not eternal. An eternal being is uncreated. We can conclude that the one God who is uncreated, has to be Eternal.\n\n3. "He begets not, nor is He begotten"\n\nIt follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then obviously He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child and the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since we agreed that there is only one God, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him and more eternal than him. and we cannot have one who is more eternal than "ETERNAL"\n\n4. And there is none like unto Him\nmeans He is unique unlike that which He has created.\n\n \n=====================\n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS\n\n\n\n==============\n\n*******************************\n\n\nTO ....... poooks9\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\nHumans are not unique. I am a human, and i am not unique in the sense that i am not the only human. there are other humans as well. \nGod is unique means there is nothing like unto HIM. and He is not like anything. \n\nsame thing is mentioned in bible >>>> "I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me."\n[The Bible, Isaiah 46:9]\n\nnow what has blowing to do with this question.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ansotukrv9vu2mEVQz183CXsy6IX?qid=1006051404952\n\n=======================
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Your question cannot be answered.\n\nReason and faith are unrelated.  More, they are unrelatable.\n\nIt is a confusion of terms to consider the vernacular "belief", implying an awareness of facts which are subject to confirmation and disproof, with "belief" in the context of faith and religion, where the tenets are merely stated.\n\nEven within the technical arena, even within that most exacting of disciplines, mathematics, there remain elements that are the subject of belief without proof and without the possibility of proof (Kurt Godel).  \n\nFaith and reason are disjoint, and the tools of one are inadequate for a study or analysis of the other.  Therefore your question is improper, from a logical viewpoint, and the concept of a rational explanation of faith has no meaning.
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Because God is a moron, but how can he be a moron if he knows all? Thus we come to the only rational explanation of a perfect God who made a mistake. He cannot exist and thus God does not exist either that or sin does not exist. And if sin does not exist then why did Jesus die on the cross.
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I like your logic, and I agree.  I believe all gods are one God, just different names/aspects.  The supreme ruler is an IMMENSE being, and mere humans with our human brains cannot possibly interpret the whole thing as it is.  So we look at aspects of the supreme being.  I see one part, and you see another part.  But we're seeing the same Being.
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The question you have asked has led many to the field of apologetics - the view that simple reasoning will lead one to believe that there exists an unending, supernatural, and omniposcent being.  The reasoning is quite simple, regardless of the method that was used to create the universe, something HAS to be unending.  If not, who started it?  Since something is eternal, what created matter and energy?  An intelligent being must have.  Since an intelligent being must have created all that is, this being must also have powers beyond those of the creation.  Hence, there is a supreme being (God or whomever you want to call Him) who has no beginning and no end and is all powerful.\nTo further prove this reasoning, look to statistics.  Most statisticians believe in a supreme being because they know how chance really works.  For example, there are about 200 bones in the human body.  If you wanted all the bones to line up in one particular order and you could try a different arrangement every second, how long would it take you to try every possible combination and find the right one?  It would take 2.5^367 years to try every possible combination.  By comparison, a billion years is only 1.0^9 years.  Statisticians know that blind chance alone is not sufficient to result in any meaningful creation, whether it be bones, chemicals, proteins, or whatever.  It takes life to make life.
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Nobody created God. God is eternal without beginning or end. Do I understand this, no. \n\nThe only thing we know is that God aquired wisdom in eternity past. \n\nWISDOM SPEAKING\nPro 8:23  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. \nPro 8:24  When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. \nPro 8:25  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: \nPro 8:26  While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. \nPro 8:27  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: \nPro 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: \nPro 8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: \nPro 8:30  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; \nPro 8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
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If evil exists and god is against evil then god cannot be all good all knowing and all powerful at the same time.He either doesn't know about evil, doesn't have a problem with evil, or can't do anything about evil. \n\nThis is not about free will either, as if god is all knowing he would have known about evil before it happens, If he were all powerful he would be able to stop the evil, and were he all good he would not have created people who were going to do evil in the first place. \n\nThere is no way arround it, such a god would have created the universe for evil to be in it. He would have wanted evil. Thankfully there's polytheism.