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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#1 (**permalink**))

[align=center]*** I put this in the Philosophy Forum because I don't want any Qur'an blather or Bible babble here. I would like to have a discussion about the existence of God, where we actually think about it logically instead of being reactionary to a particular preconceived faith. ***[/align]
Now to the question...Does It Make Sense For A Personal God to Exist?

Myphilosophical argument ultimately concludes, NO.

When I say "personal God", I am talking about a God that does the following:

- "Answers prayers"
-"Performs miracles"
- Influences nature such as causing earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis,and so forth for some divine purpose or lesson.
- Bendsthe willof people to make a theological point like9/11,Iraq & Afghan Wars, Jewish Holocaust, and so forth.
- Inserts tragic defects into human endeavors to humble man like the Titanic, space shuttle crashes (Columbia), train derailings, plane crashes, and so forth.
- Administer "blessings" and "consequences" during our lifetime for our behavior.
- Revealing messages or any kind of intimate interaction with specific people or groups of mankind.

Let's make somecrude realizationsabout what "God" is. God is supposed to be all-powerful, all-knowing, and theepitome of righteousness. How can an entity deemed as "God" bless the most crooked people to ever live, yet allow the most righteous to suffer?There are countless real-world examples present and throughout history.

Why would God punish innocent Americans with 9/11 (as some have said), yet turn a blind eye to other crookedness in the world. Surely God would be able to punish all inequities, butGod does not. If we even try to rationalize why God would pick and choose these things, we only make ourselves out to sound extremely stupid...quite frankly because it is incredibly stupid for a God to do that.

Therefore, we must remove one of the properties for "God", whereeither God isn't all-powerful, isn't all-knowing, or isn't the epitome of righteousness. You can pick one, but I don't think God would be God if he wasn't all-powerful or all-knowing...which means God can simply not be righteous. This notion seems a bit wierd, and is the idea of God that the Mesopotamianscame up with. I have to say that an unrighteous God only confers to many other questions, which suggests this simply cannot be the case either.

So what are we left with other than that God must be a non-personal all-powerful & all-knowing being? This is where I am at with the question of the thread.

Does It Make Sense For A Personal God to Exist? Please give your justifications for which ever is your conclusion...