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Regarding the existence of God...

I think about this a lot.  If, and that's a big IF, a God creates the universe and all that is within it including the laws of physics and all the atoms and quarks and dark energy and the whole shebang I've always wondered.....where did God come from?  I mean, alpha and omega aside, how did he come into being......is there a higher God that rules over our God?  And if there is a higher God, who made this God?  



And if, another big IF, there was a "Big Bang" and that's what started it all....what came before the Big Bang to make the stuff the Big Bang came from.  And my understanding is that ever since the Big Bang the universe is expanding...but I've often wondered....expanding into WHAT?  

Imagine if we could just answer only 1 of the questions from above.  

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I could get behind every chick on this list, and the others receiving votes too.  

What I've always wondered...

• God is omniscient and omnipotent.
• God knows the past, the present, and the future (being omniscient). To think that God's knowledge is limited by the constraints of traveling through geological time is not giving him true omniscience.
• This would imply that God knows in advance every decision I make in my life, because for me to make any decision contrary to God's knowledge would make Him wrong, and being omniscient he cannot be wrong. 
• This means that there cannot be such a thing as "free will", because I can only make the decisions God has already known I will make.
• God created the universe. He is omnipotent, so he could choose to make the universe in any way he likes. 
• He clearly liked the one he made, hence why the religious always talk about things, bad or good, being "God's plan". 
• Since he is omniscient and omnipotent, his PLAN for the universe is such that every sin I commit, he has preordained that I will commit, and that I have no free will to do (or think) otherwise. 
• In fact, his preordained plan thus must be that I was to be an atheist, to *NOT* accept Jesus as my savior, and his plan is responsible for that and every other thing that has occurred in my life. I have no autonomy in any of it.

Which leads me to...

• If God accepts that he has made me flawed as I am, then a benevolent God would not punish me with eternal damnation simply for doing what he literally created me to do, and cannot choose otherwise. 
• If God, knowing he full well could have created a universe where I either didn't commit the sins he is holding me accountable for, or chosen to create a universe where I never existed (and thus didn't need to be punished), STILL chooses to punish me with eternal damnation? Well, then God is an ass. 

If it's the former, then I'll see y'all in heaven. If it's the latter, well, who would want to believe in that asshole God anyway?