I asked the following that got lost in another thread, so I'll ask again along with a similar question batair posed:

If you were god-for-a-day ~13.6 billion years ago, would you hit the 'play' button knowing that things would play-out (suffering, etc.) essentially as they have?

you're asking a bunch of guys who are wealthy enough to afford a computer and internet. take the same question and ask 3 billion+ poor people who can't even have clean water to drink. I think they'd say they'll make some changes before hitting that play button.

hell no. I'd tweak it so I have a girlfriend at least

Erm, Yes, of course I'd hit the "Play" button. If I were only a god for a day then presumably I'd go back to being "not a god" at the end of that day, and if I pressed the Delete button on the universe then I've just voted myself out of existence. And why would I want to do that???


I lol'd

if i were God no, if i were "me" telling God what to do, yes.

Yes, because you miss the whole point of it all. This life is a non perfect means to an perfect end. Not the end in itself.

If you are asking this question, there is no way I could really explain this to you that you would understand, at least I wouldn't really try, because there is sooo much background understanding you need in regards to Gods nature and the purpose of life.

Do I get to see the final outcome?

If it's "just this," no afterlife and nothing more to it, then I don't hit play.

Well God did, he saw the final outcome, not only that, he had such a great plan that the final outcome came about by freewill choices. Which was to have a large loving spiritual family that loved him back.

So he hit play.....

if i were god for a day, id use my all powerfulness to make sure im god forever.

Hey speak for yourself - some of us have to send our posts in by homing pigeon.

So basically you're saying god was insecure and decided to create a little ant hill of beings to praise him and obsess over him.

That's ****ing great.

Is hit play. And i definitely would not turn it off because that would be mass genocide, possibly on a universal scale.

No, not at all. Gods hearts desire was to have a family who wholly loves him by freewill choice, not robots. Whats that have to do with insecurity?

As always you have been bitten and blinded to the truth by the dreaded cannabis bug......

srsly, this guy.

ALl god has to do to acheive this is to show that he exists outside of a book and not make a world where 8yr old girls are raped, children are born diseased and orphaned and people like hitler come to be. ALso what mkaes you think you know anything about God if real, all you have is a book and an imagination and oyu think you know what GOd wants and why he does what he does but I bet you can't explain why so much terrible stuff happens to innocents and then you come out and say that he wants to be loved. WHy would anything like love even exist to god.
You are so deluded it is ridiculous. No one on these forums makes me wanna troll as much as you, its like you're just a massive level. You are just levelling yourself though. This life, and then permanent unconsciousness. Not 'you've past the test by loving me now spend eternity with me eventually getting bored and wanting to die' or 'you've failed the test, you didn't believe in me even though omg a book amongst a thousand books so now oyu go to hell hahahaha'

/troll

I need to stop coming on here. tilting. Oh merry xmas

obviously I would, if its a choice between letting the universe start and not letting it start, I think it would be much better to let it start.

I do have some background understanding in regards to God's nature, however the position you're arguing from is irrelevant to anyone who doesn't first believe in God. You can go on and on citing chapter and verse all you want, when you're talking to people who already believe in God, but if they're not working off that premise to begin with, it's a waste of time. When a non-believer asks about suffering in the world and you reply with, "God said…" or, "the Bible says…" that has about as much sway in the argument as saying, "the Tarot says…" or, "the alignment of the planets shows…"

The point of my question is if all the suffering in the world can be justified from the human perspective. In other words, would or could a person who considers themselves to be good justify bringing about suffering to bring about what they consider to be a greater good?

Not exactly. If you hit play, you'll have to endure the totality of human suffering until the end of time.