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God's DebrisIsn’t that a better solution for God than the one you suggested?” “Why would God want to mislead us?” “If God exists, his motives are certainly unfathomable. No one knows why he grants free will, or why he cares about human souls, or why pain and suffering are necessary parts of life.” “The one thing I know about God’s motives is that he must love us, right?” I wasn’t convinced of this myself, given all the problems in the world, but I was curious about how he would respond. “Love? Do you mean love in the way you understand it as a human?” “Well, not exactly, but basically the same thing. I mean, love is love.” “A brain surgeon would tell you that a specific part of the brain controls the ability to love. If it’s damaged, people are incapable of love, incapable of caring about others.” “So?” “So, isn’t it arrogant to think that the love generated by our little brains is the same thing that an omnipotent being experiences? If you were omnipotent, why would you limit yourself to something that could be reproduced by a little clump of neurons?” I shifted my opinion to better defend it. “We must feel something similar to God’s type of love, but not the same way God feels it.” “What does it mean to feel something similar to the way God feels? Is that like saying a pebble is similar to the sun because both are round?” he responded. “Maybe God designed our brains to feel love the same way he feels it ...» |
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