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Latest post Wed, Dec 10 2008 12:56 AM by AlpheccaStars. 1 replies.
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tom12345678910  +  609297 Tue, 09 Dec 08 10:17 PM
PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE DO THIS IS DUE TOMOROW IT ISONLY A SMALL PART BUT THIS PART IS ALL I NEED IF YOU CAN HELP WITH ANYTHING WORDING ECT. PLEASE DO THANK YOU 

 The next argument I am going to touch on is one of the most well known, commonly used and effective arguments arguing  that God does not exist. This is the argument of suffering, people use this in the terms of “If God exists then why is there suffering in the world?”, “If God is all powerful and all loving then why does he allow suffering?” and “If good is real then why does he allow conflict over religion and beliefs” these are all just statements that I have come up with but they have been used to try to argue God not existing, maybe one of the reasons for people using this argument is because it is one that is easy to use its seems that there is evidence for it, God is meant to be all loving and all powerful but if he is then why would he not stop all the horrific violence and conflict going on around the world surly if someone is all loving they would not be able to sit back and watch people killing each other in fact if he was all loving he shouldn’t really be able to watch people hurting each other or being horrible to one another but all this would add up if God was just all loving because what can he do about it, it is out of his power he can do nothing but that’s not the case God is supposedly all powerful so he should be able to stop it all with a click of his fingers, now it could be that he just chooses not to,  but of course he is all loving so that cannot be true and that is why atheists are saying this must be a reason that God does not exist because it seems like it should all adds up. But this theory does not simply rule out the idea of God, yes it might be a quite convincing argument but maybe suffering is there for a reason of course God does not want people to die but if everybody just died of old age the world would just over populate and if the human race could not suffer then we probably would not be where we are today maybe we suffer for our own good in a way suffering teaches us it makes us appreciate life so maybe God is there he just allows suffering for a reason, but this is another argument that will go on being argued out by both theists and atheists.

 The next argument is another argument against the existents of god, this is if and when people go to pray to God, how come a lot of the time there prays are not answered and when they are could it not just be coincident . God is (this not referring to all gods and goddesses) supposedly everywhere, all around as so surly when we talk to him he can hear us, God is also meant to be all loving in that case surly if he can hear us he should answer us help us out, however nice this would be a lot of the time it is not true, a lot of the time God does not answer us maybe this mean that he cannot hear us and maybe this could mean that God does not exist. But countering that is the fact that there are those people who believe that there prays have been answered and what they asked for or prayed for came true so that must mean the statement before proves nothing. Countering that you could say well why would God answer some and not others, maybe those people who believe that there prays have been answered have just got lucky or what they prayed for just come about by chance this is stating God doesn’t exist or at least he cannot be everywhere and cannot be all loving if he answers some people and not others. Answering that statement you could say that God cannot simply answer everyone at once because of course there are millions of people all praying at one time. To counter that you might say well God is suppose to be all powerful and if he’s all powerful answering a million prays at once should be easy. The argument does not end there but unfortunately I’m going to have to finish that argument now.

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AlpheccaStars  +  609336 Wed, 10 Dec 08 12:56 AM

Aside comments:  1) You remarked that you were going to take an agnostic point of view in your essay, but all of your arguments are from the Christian tradition. 2) Surly is a good word and it means "angry and disrespectful." I don't think you meant to use this word. 3) Pronouns referring to God are capitalized. 4) Pray is a verb. Prayer is a noun. 5) The possessive form of "they" is "their". There refers to a place (He went over there)

The next argument I am going to touch on is one of the most well known, commonly used and effective arguments arguing that God does not exist. This is the argument of suffering, people use this in the terms of "If God exists then why is there suffering in the world?", "If God is all powerful and all loving then why does He allow suffering?" and "If good (?God) is real then why does he allow conflict over religion and beliefs" these are all just statements that I have come up with but they have been used to try to argue God's not existing. Maybe one of the reasons for people using this argument is because it is one that is easy to use. It seems that there is evidence for it, God is meant to be all loving and all powerful but if He is then why would he not stop all the horrific violence and conflict going on around the world? Surely if someone is all loving they would not be able to sit back and watch people killing each other. In fact if He were all loving He shouldn't really be able to watch people hurting each other or being horrible to one another but all this would add up if God was just all loving because what can He do about it, it is out of His power He can do nothing but that's not the case God is supposedly all powerful so He should be able to stop it all with a click of his fingers, now it could be that He just chooses not to,  but of course He is all loving so that cannot be true and that is why atheists are saying this must be a reason that God does not exist because it seems like it should all adds up. (This sentence is too long, and I did not try to fix it. You write a lot of run-on sentences and repeat your ideas. Try to write sentences that are shorter and to the point.)  But this theory does not simply rule out the idea of God. Yes it might be a quite convincing argument but maybe suffering is there for a reason. Of course God does not want people to die but if everybody just died of old age the world would just over populated and if the human race could not suffer then we probably would not be where we are today. Maybe we suffer for our own good. In a way suffering teaches us it makes us appreciate life so maybe God is there and just allows suffering for a reason. But this is another argument that will go on being argued out by both theists and atheists.

 The next argument is another argument against the existence of God, this is if and when people go to pray to God, how come a lot of the time their prayers are not answered and when they are , could it not just be a coincidence? God is (this not referring to all gods and goddesses) supposedly everywhere, all around as so surely when we talk to him he can hear us. God is also meant to be all loving in that case surely if he can hear us he should answer us and help us out. However nice this would be, a lot of the time it is not true, a lot of the time God does not answer us. Maybe this means that he cannot hear us and maybe this could mean that God does not exist. But countering that is the fact that there are those people who believe that their prayers have been answered and what they asked for or prayed for came true. So that must mean the previous statement before proves nothing. Countering that, you could say, "Well, why would God answer some and not others, maybe those people who believe that their prayers have been answered have just got lucky or what they prayed for just came about by chance." This is stating God doesn't exist or at least he cannot be everywhere and cannot be all loving if He answers some people and not others. Answering that statement you could say that God cannot simply answer everyone at once because of course there are millions of people all praying at one time. To counter that you might say "Well God is suppose to be all powerful and if He's all powerful answering a million prayers at once should be easy." The argument does not end there but unfortunately I'm going to have to finish that argument now.

 
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