If you were God, what kind of God would you be?

I would like to think I would be a nice god. But power corrupts......... I think the main problem for an eternal omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god would be boredom. I would try to create a cosmos that would entertain me.I would use my omnipresence to experience all that there is to conceivably experience in a desperate bid to entertain myself on those long dark and lonely nights in eternity.

I may be an ass but I pride myself on my sense of irony. Immaterial evidence would absolutely rule in MY universe!! The rational would be irrational in my "kingdom". Just to keep me amused and to wipe the smug grins off those friggin all too confident atheists. Or even The Universe as one giant pub.... Ahhhh bliss!

I made the comment reasonably flippantly but I have been thinking about this more seriously.Does being omniscient, in the sense of knowing everything, equate to having experienced everything? Is knowing what it is like to do or feel something the same as undergoing the actual experience itself?Would an omnipotent, omniscient god crave perpetual experience rather than just "knowing"? Experience gained through omnipresence and ones "creations" I think you are right. But it is kinda fun trying. Whether flippantly or more seriously.

I'm not sure that this is an aside. In principle at least. It raises the question of whether or not Jesus would have been able to have been granted all that human experience if there had not been human beings to have expereinced it?No need to consider Jesus specifically here - In the paradigm that we are considering are the creations needed to have the experiences such that the god in question can have them by proxy?If so we have derived a potential reason for our existence!!Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

So should he rape Suzy or not?I cannot find the answer in your response.

Dude you started down the morality line here. Should he rape Suzy?How do we know what god thinks is "good" or "bad" at any given time? And if he ever changes his mind how will we know?

So can we take it from this that God is in fact capable of evil acts after all?

Well I am glad that we agree on that. Your contradictory nonsense gets more internally confused with every post. Twisted logic? That is an easy question to answer. Evil? Well that suerly brings us back to the questions you are unable to answer. Should he rape Suzy? I think you have dug a hole for yourself. I think that Dr Adequate has exposed the contradictions and flaws in your position with consumate clarity. I think you are now talking in pseudo-intellectual riddles to try and sound clever whilst at the same time backing out of the argument that you know you cannot defend.Is that clear and lucid enough for you?

No, you shouldn't rape Suzy.It would be morally wrong.

I think it is fair to say that I am part of the atheist contingent here. Not quite the rabid church burning militant blood sucker of an atheist some might believe me to be. But definitely an atheist of one description or another.Don't rape Suzy. It really would be very wrong indeed.

You seem intent on having your cake and eating it in this discussion.On one hand you define rape in terms of what is or is not culturally acceptable at any given time. On the other hand you tell us that gods laws are objective, defined and independent of mans cultural inclinations.So what exactly is gods take on the enforced enslavement of women for sexual and "marriage" reasons? Did he accept it as perfectly legitimate and part of the culture in biblical times? Does he condemn it now?Does gods "objective" morality continually change to match human cultural notions of morality as you seem to be implying?

Well you are the one claiming a God given objective morality here. Is killing children morally OK? Or not? Or does it depend on situation and circumstance?What is gods view on the morality of killing innocent children and how are we to discern his views on this matter such that we can comply with his laws on this in all possible situations?Or are you sayingthat we have to use our fallible human judgement to make such moral decisions in practise?

I still don't know if gods objective morality decrees the killing of children as OK in some circumstances, such as war, or not.Is the killing of children sometimes morally justified? How can I find out gods view on this question?Or will I have to use my own fallible mortal moral judgement when faced with such moral dilemmas?

This is all very well. But it doesn't answer my question.If I am a soldier faced with a complex moral dilemma about actions that will inevitably result in killing children for what I am told is a greater good what do I do? How do I know what god would want me to do in this situation?Where is the objective moral standard that you tell me exists and how do I access it in order to find the answers to such questions?Or do I just have to rely on my fallible human judgement on such matters?

So all soldiers are immoral according to you?I want to know how I can know gods objective absolute morality. But all the answers you give me suggest that in practical terms your answers are the same are those that moral relativists would give.I.e. go with your conscience, morality is a product of culture and circumstance etc. etc. etc.