Saturday, November 27, 2004

I am an Atheist that Advocates Agnosticism

The paradox:
Assume:
-There is a God that is omnipotent and omniscient
-God created all things via ordained natural laws
-Sin exists, and is not in accordance with the values of God
-God wants us to be happy, and happiness is the aim of human existence
-God punishes sinners
Conclusions from those assumptions:
-No observation of nature can be inconsistent with the existence of God
-The original conditions of the universe were set such that there would eventually be organisms aware of that being (the Anthropic Principal) and God knew this.
-Natural laws cannot be violated from within the system; one may only be placed in situations in which separate natural laws, as they have been artificially divided,
-Randomness is an illusion: knowing all of the laws and the precise position and velocity of all particles and energy negates Heisenberg’s uncertainty principal.
-Free will is an illusion: one cannot act except in accordance with natural laws whether we are aware of them or not, except in the instance of divine intervention/ miracles.
-Paradox 1: The act of sinning is therefore in accordance with and is the product of God’s natural laws, but not in accordance with God’s values.
-God knows and has always known who will and will not sin
-While Jesus could have made a difference, God still knows in advance who will and will not sin, and sin still exists.
-The rejection of Jesus as lord and savior is the invisible and unconscious consequence of natural law.
-Paradox 2: God wants us to be happy but knowingly predetermined via his non-negotiable natural laws that some would sin and therefore suffer.
-If it is therefore part of God’s values that a certain acceptable percentage not be happy, and increased happiness (though perhaps not as great as the sinless) can be attained by that percentage by continued or greater discontinuity with God’s values (e.g. via hedonism), then there is no incentive for that percentage to reduce their sin
-Paradox 3: God does not like sin but knowingly created a system by which a positive feedback loop increases it.

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