Theology Question

[gfm7175]

Why would God want people to be unhappy?

So that people are capable of understanding the full joy of happiness?

[BidenPresident]

So that people are capable of understanding the full joy of happiness?

I don't need to have my legs broken to appreciate well functioning legs.

[SmarterthanYou]

it's quite obvious that for all the bullshit talk about some people declaring that there is no God, you sure do act like you know everything about it, which is an exceptional display of your ignorance.

[NiftyNiblick]

So that people are capable of understanding the full joy of happiness?

They certainly would be if they were created by a perfect god

instead of being what they actually are--the random confluence of sub-atomic particles.

[SmarterthanYou]

They certainly would be if they were created by a perfect god

what part of the theology class stated that God wanted a perfect earth?

[gfm7175]

Why would God want people to be unhappy?

Does 'delayed gratification' mean anything to you?

[BidenPresident]

Does 'delayed gratification' mean anything to you?

No.

[gfm7175]

Why would they need to?

RQAA.

[BidenPresident]

RQAA.

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[gfm7175]

This is absurd.

A truly omnipotent god could create the reality that people could be perfectly happy,
and an all-loving god who was indeed omnipotent and wanted to create people
would do exactly that...else it would not be all-loving.

It's far more likely that the concept of god was a construct of "early-phase of evolution" humans,
and that a residual effect of that remains in some present-day-humans for reasons we need to examine.

What does any of this absurdity have to do with what I just said?

[gfm7175]

I don't need to have my legs broken to appreciate well functioning legs.

... because you've seen other people who do not have well functioning legs, thus you better appreciate your own well functioning legs. Having your own well functioning legs taken away from you would even further expand that feeling though.

[gfm7175]

No.

Figured as much.

[BidenPresident]

... because you've seen other people who do not have well functioning legs, thus you better appreciate your own well functioning legs. Having your own well functioning legs taken away from you would even further expand that feeling though.

So, God wants us to suffer?

[NiftyNiblick]

What does any of this absurdity have to do with what I just said?

You specifically mused as to whether mere humans can or cannot understand the pure joy of perfect happiness.

I reasonably responded that they could certainly do that
if they'd been created by an omnipotent, all-loving god.

The very fact that we're considering the question
is pretty much proof that such was not our origin.

[BidenPresident]

Figured as much.

Why ask a question if you don't want an answer? Anyway, what did it have to do with the topic of the thread?