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If you spent eternity in a fiery pit wouldn't you just get use to being in a fiery pit? (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by Daft_ish to c/showerthoughts
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[–] PP_BOY_ 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You're trying to corporealize a concept that is fundamentally non-corporeal. An omnipotent being could make eternal suffering mean suffering eternally simply by virtue of being all-powerful. The means by which this is done is (would be) completely beyond our understanding or even able to be conceived by our current understanding of the world.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 2 points 1 year ago

Which is exactly why it it's so obvious that it was created by the minds of men. It doesn't make sense to our understanding of the world/physics and the only argument anyone has comes down to "well if this all powerful God I can't prove did exist he'd be able to do all of this in a way we can't understand!"

Sure, but anyone can theorize an all powerful omnipotent being and then make up whatever rules about them damning/saving you and the necessary conjecture about them being so beyond us that we can't understand it.

To me that's just a shield against criticism, a red flag that the person making the argument is attempting to bring it into the realm of unfalsifiability. A very human tendency for a very human idea of god.

[–] Daft_ish -5 points 1 year ago

.... no, that's your interpretation of what I said. I asked a straight forward question and you put your own spin on it.