On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chris Zell <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, that still allows for a transcendent impersonal God who operates > as a system - and might even answer prayers. A true god would not answer prayers as he would have created the conditions that required your prayers and would have determined the outcome presumably prior to genesis (when the universe was on the drawing board, so to speak) so your prayers would make no difference other than to be what he wanted you to do. If there is, indeed, a true god then we're nothing but automatons or puppets going about our pre-ordained existences and everything is as it was intended to be and can never be otherwise. If I believed that I would have to shoot myself. And that would have preordained anyway. [m]
