Whats the meaning of God's Silence....

[Blessed2012]

Whats the meaning of God's Silence ....

[ummmm]

plautus - you really remind me of that bloke with 5 1's.

[naomi24]

ummmm, ;o)

Actually, it’s Jom that’s got me worried now. Plautus thinks he’s a girl! Told him to stop wearing those high heeled shoes! :o)

Plautus, //Can't argue with the daughters of Satan…..//

I can’t see any relevant argument from you at all – but that aside, Daughters of Satan, Sons of God – they’re all at it with their begetting – and none of them married. Shocking! Makes me wonder why we bother questioning religion’s obsession with sex.

[jomifl]

Plautus, stop being sanctimoniously picky, you know perfectly well what Birdie meant.

[birdie1971]

Plautus - “... "metered" - Meted, my boy, not metered!...”

Well excuse me all over the place. I didn't realise I was at a spelling 'bee'.

If all you have to say on a subject is to post derisory or pedantic comments about other people's spelling or grammar then may I politely suggest that you refrain from doing so? It just makes you look foolish and pompous. Calling me “my boy” also has the rather unpleasant whiff of superciliousness about it.

[dotty.]

'Some of God's Greatest Gifts, Are Unanswered Prayers'

[Hopkirk]

I think he is just sulking

[mikey4444]

It could mean to complete indifference that he showed when millions of Jews, Communists, Homesexuels, etc were driven into the gas chambers.

Or when all those poor innocent children starved to death in Biafra.

The list is endless.

[beso]

God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he rested.

It is still the seventh day and He is going to be really annoyed when He gets back to work.

[Batexia]

God is fittingly described as omnipotent and omniscient—almighty and all-knowing in the sense that nothing can be hidden from him. However, these terms are not in the Bible. But the Bible does show that God is selective when it comes to fore ordaining the future.

As to not listening to prayers, I think he does. But does he answer? Probably not all, but he does answer some. How many times do you hear people say, “My prayers were answered” Obviously they feel that God heard and answered.

I have had prayers answered, but then again, I have also not received answers. So why does he answer some and not others?

[LazyGun]

Its not "fitting" to describe "god" as omniscient and omnipotent at all, since you have not a single shred of evidence for that statement, other than faith in a book of oral legends.

We do, on the other hand, have ample evidence to support the notion that there is no god, and you highlight some of that evidence - intercessory prayer does not work, and there is no response - and the reasons for that lack of response is that god is indifferent and callous, impotent and therefore unworthy of worship, or - and this is the most likely option of all - non-existent - a delusion of the faithful, a figment of your imagination.

[naomi24]

Batexia, //God is fittingly described as omnipotent and omniscient.//

Logically, God cannot possibly be both omnipotent and omniscient. For the sake of simplicity, I shall quote Richard Dawkins, who explains it quite succinctly.

//If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can’t change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent.//

[naomi24]

//How many times do you hear people say, “My prayers were answered” //

Yes, you do hear people say that, but you rarely hear them say ‘My prayers were unanswered’.//

Perhaps it would be more accurate for them to say 'my hopes have been achieved’.

[mibn2cweus]

//Whats The Meaning Of God's Silence....//

Well if The Big Bang didn't do Him in entirely then at the very least it must have rendered Him, aurally challenged . . . Hello!?

[naomi24]

^^ Haaaaaaaaaa! That's it!!! He's deaf!! (Crying here!)

[Batexia]

@Lazygun
If there is no god or it is a figment of imagination, how do you account for the fact that ever since the beginning of time, man has had the need to worship something whether it be the sun, an idol, the stones etc. etc.

[sandyRoe]

The fact that he appears to cock a def 'un doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't hear. What you think you need isn't always what you really want.

[Batexia]

@Naomi
And who is Richard Dawkins to say this about God. He has no more knowledge than you or I. Everything he says is really only guesswork.
I am afraid I take his words much as you take the words of the Bible.

[vulcan]

I don't think the people being herded into the gas chambers thought they needed it but God must have thought they really wanted it.

[jomifl]

If god was omniscient you wouldn't need to pray to him, if he was omnipotent he wouldn't need you to fight his corner. The words and deeds of believers demonstrate that in their subconcious mind they don't really believe in god at all and at they are mildly schizophrenic.

[LazyGun]

@Batexia - The fact that various cultures and societies over the millenia have worshipped some sort of a deity is not any kind of evidence that a deity exists.

It is evidence to support the notion that humanity shares an innate curiosity with its primate cousins. Humanity has a need for a narrative to explain the unknown, to label the fears of the dark.

There are common strands around primitive worship - Nature, the Sun, animals as totems. As societies and cultures merged and assimilated, as some cultures predominated over others,societies became more sophisticated,some primitive forms of worship fell out of favour, and the narratives became more complex, more sophisticated.

The notion of a deity is entirely man made. There is not a shred of empirical evidence to support the notion of a supernatural deity.

The development of philosophy, science and technology, the application of logic and mathematics and applied science, the employment of the scientific method have all driven back the borders of the ignorance, and we find a purely naturalistic explanation for pretty much everything.

The notion of a god is a relic of primitive humanity, sustained by ignorance, fear of death and the unknown, rigidly enforced by the religions using ritual and doctrine that have grown up around such faith.

god is a zombie - it does not know when its dead.