Re: A loveing and careing God?

lynx wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
> 
>> lynx wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Barry OGrady wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:31:45 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> *snip*
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What Mark calls God the rest of us call nature or the universe.
>>>>> No wonder Mark's God lacks intelligence.
>>>>>
>>>> God lacks intelligence? How can that be when God is infinite, 
>>>> encompassing the whole universe and all the "intelligent" beings 
>>>> with it? Seems to me that God has all the intelligence. Its someone 
>>>> closer to home who lacks in that department Barry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If this world is the best an 'intelligent' God can do, then he 
>>> stuffed up big time! and it speaks very little for His so-called 
>>> intelligence.
>>>
>> I don't understand this comment. 
> 
> 
> Oh really? You think that a world where the lot of mankind is to suffer 
> from all manner of causes- natural disasters, famine, sickness and 
> disease, etc.,- and whose only remedy is the slow and painstaking 
> evolution of knowledge of how to overcome this situation over countless 
> centuries is a good plan?
> 
Who am I to question what God does or doesn't do? What makes you think 
that the suffering of mankind should be an overriding concern of God? 
Did Jesus heal every sick or suffering person in Palestine when he was 
on earth?

You are starting to sound like Barry.

>> This world is still evolving, and it is likely if not certain that it 
>> will produce much more intelligence yet, probably through intelligent 
>> machines (computers) which will have many times the information 
>> processing power of us mere humans. 
> 
> 
> So what?
> 
So if intelligence is the be all and end all of this world, then it 
isn't finished yet, and you cannot make derogatory remarks about God's 
intelligence from an imperfect perspective.

Chris