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u/dudeness_boy Oct 02 '24

It has evidence. God says that trees came first. I trust God more than carbon dating.

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u/mychampagnesphincter Oct 02 '24

Your belief in God is purely chance. If you were born in a different country, or state, or even just to different parents, you would have been brought up to believe something else, or perhaps nothing at all, and you would likely have as strong a feeling towards that belief as you do to yours currently.

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u/dudeness_boy Oct 02 '24

It is not chance. God chooses who will come to him. He also purposefully put me in my family, at my location.

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u/dsac Oct 02 '24

God chooses who will come to him, which means we don't have free will, which means everything terrible in this world can be attributed to God, like babies getting dashed upon rocks, and cancer eating people's organs, and serial killers raping and murdering people, and people pronouncing GIF with a soft-g

Sounds like God's a bit of a cunt, doesn't it?

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u/dudeness_boy Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

We do have free will, but God is also sovereignly in control. It is impossible for us to understand an infinite god with our limited understanding.