From His/Its/Her perspective, if I had Billions of life forms I was responsible for on each of millions(?) of inhabitable planets throughout just this Universe - I'd be crabby as $hit too. All of them needing constant resources, continually consuming energy to be used on everything from pissing it away, to working for money, or in the rare lot - improving the future of ones species. All while they're bitter and unhappy.
And since I was infinite - I had to do that forever for some odd reason... I'd be bitter.
I'm not religious but this strikes me as an odd sentiment.
First of all, if God is indeed omnipotent and omniscient then why would anything that humans can dream up surprise or annoy God? Surely it is the height of hubris to think that humans could surprise an omniscient deity.
Secondly, if you are indeed infinite then even taking care of billions of lifeforms on millions of planets would be an infinitely small part of your attention and thus not worth being annoyed about.
Thirdly even if would be so annoying to God to take care of all the species (not that God seems all that proactive these days) then He can just destroy the universe and be done with it?
All in all, I don't think there is a lot of reason for God to be bitter or upset about anything that humanity does. After all, it was Him that put these urges into humans in the first place, so it seems kinda petty to then be upset about anything they choose to do.
This. Once one posits the abstract properties of God as infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and a priori to all things, a lot of religious presumptions look like failures of the imagination. It is trivially obvious that God is unknowable, that any God one claims to know is 'another' God placed before the true God. It is literal hubris to experience certitude about the nature of God, and there is therefore no exemption from culpability through the name of God for injuries done to another.
I remember the question of if God is omnipotent, why does he allow such suffering. I believe this was explained away by God giving man free will. I'm not a big student, but I find theology interesting.
Yes - I do this! I actually do it to reason to why the Universe is as it is. It helps me to see the groups universe systems as essentially recurring code. It helped lead to a belief as an eternal force rather than some ethereal figure in the sky.
It also led me down "scarey paths". Such as.... the most logical existences are "0, or plurality". One is therefore less likely than 0 or 2+. Thus, shouldn't no God's or many Gods be more likely than 1?
No earthquakes or volcano eruptions seems like a good place to start. In fact, natural disasters of any kind seem pretty useless, philosophically speaking. Just random and pointless misery.
From His/Its/Her perspective, if I had Billions of life forms I was responsible for on each of millions(?) of inhabitable planets throughout just this Universe - I'd be crabby as $hit too. All of them needing constant resources, continually consuming energy to be used on everything from pissing it away, to working for money, or in the rare lot - improving the future of ones species. All while they're bitter and unhappy.
And since I was infinite - I had to do that forever for some odd reason... I'd be bitter.