I'm not a believer, so I don't believe in god's power. I am an atheist and I believe in logic, that's all. If there is a god, why he punishes mostly the people they believe in his existence? I know, I know, believers will tell me now that god tests them. Bad behaviour, in my eyes. In that world rich people become richer and don't know what to do with all of their money. Poor people haven't enough to eat, not enough water to drink, they miss education... I think it doesn't need more to say... lack everywhere!!! And because it isn't bad enough, they get in addition natural catastrophes and wars. If there exists a god , then I ask you: "is he blind?" I don't ask if he is able to make a stone as havy that even he isn't able to lift it. I think there other more important problems around over the world.
I think you can not judge people only by ONE question. This question does't show faithlessness or denying God. To be honest I personally was shocked at first bur over time I realized that I need more study because I had to find the answer in any cost. Wakening questions like that just make people- even Muslims - to think out of box, to feel the need to search a lot more. In spite the fact that this question can upset some persons, we should know that showing respect is basic root of any religion. We should respect each other. Let't give our reasons logically and friendly. Only raising your voice is not the good way to defend your beliefs. You take it for granted that people may not be necessarily on the same opinion, though , above all, we'd better observe human rights. I think all humans are respectful. I'm a Muslim living in Islamic society. Such reactions against that question demonstrate that some people are not strong enough to talk honestly and logically. Interesting question Hasankhan.Thank u for that. Don't be upset by some people's unfair reply. I'll post u as soon as I find the answer.
When I was a kid, I used to imagine God as a figure like a human who had facial expressions to show love and anger etc. and limbs to quiver the earth. Gradually as I am growing up, I have developed the type of thinking that illuminates God as just a concept for something supreme. It's totally undefined (I am an agnostic) but I believe there's a preeminant and predominant force that plausibly governs naturally out of the causes and effects. Thus to answer the question using my belief, it would be absurd. The analogy that floats on my mind is "Could God make another God that could defeat itself" which contradicts the concept of God. I am not really good at coining puns, but if I were to think God as a figure, I would laugh at the question as I would find it ludicrous. That's just a rhetorical answer I can provide. I love reading and squeezing my brain for questions like this. Questions do not have limits, but when a person professes a certain belief, usually he/she is limited and impeded to question.
Most people think that God is something in the sky, but it is a wrong imagination. God can not be seen or imagined, but it can be felt. You may ask how God can be felt. The following story is a good example.
One day a man (sailor) came to Imam Sadeq and said " I don't believe in God"
Imam Sadeq said : " Have it ever happened to you that the sea is stormy and raging?
The man replied :" yes "
Imam Sadeq : " Did you ask for help?"
The man : " yes"
Imam sadeq : " but no one on the ship was able to help you, who did you ask for help?"
The man : " I asked the power above all powers for help"
Imam Sadeq: " The power above all powers is your God."
God is the only powerful one in the universe and he's the maker of it. For an answer to your question , I just want you to tell yourself " the one who has the ability to create such a stone , can't he lift it ? the superior power enables God to do everything , everything in the world that we know or do not know, is submitted to Him even the heavy stone that you're talking about....
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I'm not a believer, so I don't believe in god's power. I am an atheist and I believe in logic, that's all. If there is a god, why he punishes mostly the people they believe in his existence? I know, I know, believers will tell me now that god tests them. Bad behaviour, in my eyes. In that world rich people become richer and don't know what to do with all of their money. Poor people haven't enough to eat, not enough water to drink, they miss education... I think it doesn't need more to say... lack everywhere!!!
And because it isn't bad enough, they get in addition natural catastrophes and wars.
If there exists a god , then I ask you: "is he blind?" I don't ask if he is able to make a stone as havy that even he isn't able to lift it. I think there other more important problems around over the world.
I think you can not judge people only by ONE question. This question does't show faithlessness or denying God. To be honest I personally was shocked at first bur over time I realized that I need more study because I had to find the answer in any cost. Wakening questions like that just make people- even Muslims - to think out of box, to feel the need to search a lot more. In spite the fact that this question can upset some persons, we should know that showing respect is basic root of any religion. We should respect each other. Let't give our reasons logically and friendly. Only raising your voice is not the good way to defend your beliefs. You take it for granted that people may not be necessarily on the same opinion, though , above all, we'd better observe human rights. I think all humans are respectful. I'm a Muslim living in Islamic society. Such reactions against that question demonstrate that some people are not strong enough to talk honestly and logically. Interesting question Hasankhan.Thank u for that. Don't be upset by some people's unfair reply. I'll post u as soon as I find the answer.
oh man . . .
what an ancient question . . .
you can ask lots of such (apparently philosophical) questions all the day . . .
If God can do anything, can he put whole the world in an egg without any changes in the egg and the world sizes . . . ?
mostly in such questions the answer is in the question itself . . .
and there is a contradiction in NOT your own question :
between "God can do anything" and "He won’t be able"
when you imagine something or somebody able, you cannot make it unable too . . .
God bless . . .
When I was a kid, I used to imagine God as a figure like a human who had facial expressions to show love and anger etc. and limbs to quiver the earth. Gradually as I am growing up, I have developed the type of thinking that illuminates God as just a concept for something supreme. It's totally undefined (I am an agnostic) but I believe there's a preeminant and predominant force that plausibly governs naturally out of the causes and effects. Thus to answer the question using my belief, it would be absurd. The analogy that floats on my mind is "Could God make another God that could defeat itself" which contradicts the concept of God. I am not really good at coining puns, but if I were to think God as a figure, I would laugh at the question as I would find it ludicrous. That's just a rhetorical answer I can provide. I love reading and squeezing my brain for questions like this. Questions do not have limits, but when a person professes a certain belief, usually he/she is limited and impeded to question.
Hi Dear Hassankhan,
Most people think that God is something in the sky, but it is a wrong imagination. God can not be seen or imagined, but it can be felt. You may ask how God can be felt. The following story is a good example.
One day a man (sailor) came to Imam Sadeq and said " I don't believe in God"
Imam Sadeq said : " Have it ever happened to you that the sea is stormy and raging?
The man replied :" yes "
Imam Sadeq : " Did you ask for help?"
The man : " yes"
Imam sadeq : " but no one on the ship was able to help you, who did you ask for help?"
The man : " I asked the power above all powers for help"
Imam Sadeq: " The power above all powers is your God."
Imam Sadeq: " oh, Now I believe in God."
Dear Rema, thank you so much.
Thanks for your input,I appreciate that.
God is the only powerful one in the universe and he's the maker of it. For an answer to your question , I just want you to tell yourself " the one who has the ability to create such a stone , can't he lift it ? the superior power enables God to do everything , everything in the world that we know or do not know, is submitted to Him even the heavy stone that you're talking about....
hahah nice comment!!