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I got a lot of respect for you BSJ, but I'm sticking to my story. I think that proof of God's existence is so obvious and so ubiquitous that, with eyes shut, in a dark, silent room, a rational creature can reach that conclusion in seconds. As long as the mind is empty of what I can best describe as 'criticism.' Rene Descartes did it.

Oh, and in the argument above, the principle that our works define who we are does not need to come into play. God is all powerful. God is all good. God created the world. The world has evil in it. The logical fallacy is already there. How can an all-powerful, all-good creature create evil? He could have created the world in any shape (all powerful) but chose to create or permit evil.

But God's thrust is toward the good. And He cannot get anything moving in that direction if everything is good. The evil is necessary in order for good to occur, or be chosen. Without evil, the world is void of this entire value scale.

Or maybe He did not create evil, but rather we create evil with our decisions. And maybe that stems from some kind of delegation of divinity. Maybe we're given that little option as a training bike. Maybe we're little Gods-In-Training.
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