QUOTE FROM DEWEY:
Dewey's God Breaker
Instructions: Accept these truths:
1. God is Omnipotent
2. God is Omniscient
3. God is Omnipresent
4. God is good
5. Jesus is God
Based on the above, God cannot exist.
If God is omnipresent, or in/of/around everything always, he cannot be Jesus, who occupies only the space he fills. If Jesus and God are the same, and God is Omniscient, how can one know something the other does not. Near the time of Christ's death, or maybe shortly after He mentions that only "the Father" knows the time of His Second Coming. Fallacy/Contradiction = Yes.
This is where you are wrong Dewey, Jesus is referred to as the SON of god over 200 in the New Testament. In addition, God is referred to as the FATHER well over 200 times, while both Son and Father are mentioned over 50 times in the N.T. to show a distinction.
Sources:
John 10:30 - says they are ONE.. one as in UNITED.
John 16:3
John 20:17
John 20:31
Just to mention a few... many more in the other gospels QUOTING Jesus regarding his status to the father.
-TenINsFJ
If God is Omnipotent, or having unlimited time and authority, Omnipresent, in/of/around everything always, past/present/future, and Omniscient, knowing all things, human minds inclusive, why can evil like rape exist? It can if the above is true, but with the kicker, God is good, it cannot.
For example, God knows the thoughts of the rapist before he has them, has the ability to stop a rapist in action, because he's there, and chooses not to do so. Thus, God is responsible for all sin.
Humans have the free will. If you think about the bigger picture, the whole point of religion(Christianity in this case) is to be different from the world. When the Bible points out that there will be evil, it's our job to not be like that, it's our job to be role models. God is not responsible for sin, it is the devil, much like how the serpent tempted Adam and Eve.. Satan merely tempts rapists(we'll use your example) with a sexual impulse, and let's the human decide whether or not to fall into that temptation. The will to resist temptation is Christianity. By God, I will never have a temptation to "rape" anyone, and even though the thought never crosses my mind, I would never ever follow through with such a temptation. By immersing myself in the Word, I resist those temptations without hesitation, and by that, God is not responsible for sin, it is the human.
In addition to that, examples of when God stopped unruly behavior
Genesis 6
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
Then we know what happens.
Until the entire world becomes bad, it is up to us(Christians) to represent him.
-TenINsFJ
IF, however, you eliminate one of the accepted truths, God can exist, but he self-destructs his own image. With the example with the rapist, if you delete any of God's powers, he no longer bears the mantle of God. Unless you remove God is Good.
That allows the equation to work...until you add:
6. God cannot lie
7. The Bible is God's Word
BANG! Contradiction! The Bible says that God is good, so really: God says that God is good, but God can do a non-good thing, so either God does not exist, allowing for the Bible to be wrong because he wouldn't be around to lie in a book about it, or the Bible is wrong, but God cannot lie, thusly not God.
Don't know if I need to reply to this, you have no examples of him lying so far.
Hell, lol. Then throw in:
8. God is perfect
So now, not only is God a liar, but if He is a liar, he cannot be perfect because He's wrong about Himself as transcribed in His, all-knowing, perfect Word. This process carries on redundantly for some time, each time I add a new accepted truth.
Again, haven't posted anything regarding a lie, so no need to reply here.
This is why I am a theist. I only believe the first three points on the God Breaker. This is also why I say, "The more you define God, the vaguer he becomes."
Apparently you said you gave sermons(I skimmed through, I might have mis-read, but sounds like you need to do more research. #4 and #5 are also truths.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
It's all just up to us.. we're the ones that need work.