There is no possible reason for an omnipotent and omniscient god to cause our reality.

If you understand the words "omnipotent" and "omniscient," you understand why a god who would care about humans would be impossible.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, creating us, would be no greater feat than imagining us. Certainly no more interesting. It could play out every possible scenario of our existence in its consciousness.

If we exist, it doesn't.

It is only the inability of most humans to understand those words that allows them to think there could be a god which would have even the slightest interest in anything less than the all-knowing and all-powerful.

There is nothing any of us could do, say or think, that could be of the slightest interest to a being that knows the position of the unknowable.

For those who say we have free-will...Free-will changes nothing. See above "It could play out every possible scenario of our existence in its consciousness."

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Patrick Stene on February 20, 2011 at 10:51am
If you talk to an at least semi-intelligent Apologist they'll say "No No No. God Is not All-powerful". Sure he made the universe and did all shit shit but he's not ALL POWERFUL.
Permalink Reply by Richard H. McCargar on February 20, 2011 at 1:19pm
A god would either be omniscient and omnipotent, or it could not be a god. To create everything, it would also need to know everything, and it would know all current and future possible outcomes of every possible scenario.

We tend to think serially, whereas a god would have all knowledge instantly, and time would be meaningless as there would be no increase in knowledge for the god with the passage of time.
Permalink Reply by Alona Naga on February 20, 2011 at 12:14pm
could not have said that any better.

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