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k2039: God existed before He created man, so He didn't need man to exist.

....... My Learned Friend, how is it that a self-sufficient God, who is perfection Himself, needs the praise of almost insignificant creatures like man? And in all creation, since the existence of time, He just chose about 6,038 years ago to be precise, to start thirsting for human praise which is apparently indispensible to him? Does it mean that maybe His world had started crumbling and He required human praise to survive? And come to think of it, an entity requiring some fundamentals to carry on and being all powerful should truely be omniscient- a quality attributed to Him but which He failed to show when He created man. Being able to know the end from the beginning, being perfect and omipotent, why didn't He forsee that man would fall? Why did He create a man with the freewill that would lead him to making the wrong choices? If truly He is all-sufficient and all-powerful, why did He not just overlook the one disobeidence of Adam and Eve as insignificant and forge ahead in providing a better remedy than allowing imperfection to permeate the most interesting part of His creation? Lastly, if the earth and man is the focal point of God's creation, what then is the essence of the billions and billions of stars in the universe? Maybe God is planning to destroy the world then create creatures that would inhabit those planets and satisfy His hunger for praise? Brother, look at what you've been taught since childhood and find the loopholes.

I grew up to believe some certain things about life, existence and God as expounded by the Bible. I am not trying to be an atheist now. Though I feel it isn't bad to ask questions about long held beliefs which do not hold water when tested against commonsense. I wonder why God, who is perfect and self-sufficient should embark on creating things? Why does He require the praises of humans? As an entity that is self-sufficient from the onset and with an endless abundance of energy and power, of what benefit is a human's praise to Him? Now, man is just about 6000+ years on earth,according to biblical chronology. Why did God, who has existed for eternity, and in view of the fact that the physical universe has existed for billions of years, choose to create man, who as purported, is the standout entity in His creation, just about a fraction of all the years earth has existed? What was God doing for those mind-blowing number of years before He started creation? Did He have to spend billions, trillions of years before the hunger for praise and worship sprang up in His heart? Now, considering the fact that man's existence is to praise and worship God, is God self-sufficient then? Is He perfect? Is He dependent on the praise and worship of man? Is the relationship between God and man symbiotic? Can God exist without man?

This picture is not a real life picture. It is an artist's impression. Look at it closely. Beside the fact that it is a color-picture purportedly taken in the '50s, it is still too beautiful for a riverbed.

I am just laughing. People worry themselves over nothing. I pity Christians. They will keep waiting and waiting for the last day, generations upon generations. They will never grasp the fact that this world will never end and there is no heaven and hell. That is why they keep listening to the teachings of these demi-gods who dictate their lives and limit their attaining a more purposeful and fulfilled life in this fleeting existence.