Where were they? What can be said about this?

[Rosexøxø]

Where were the 'deities' of the 'peoples' who were nearly, completely, eliminated?

• The ancestors and spirits, of the Native Americans
• The Judean God and spirits, of the Jews
• The Gods and ancestors, of the Rwandans

There may be more, but these stay at the forefront of my mind.

They had spiritual forces on their side. How could they be defeated, so considerably, badly?

Was the survival of the 'few,' considered a spiritual 'grace' to them?

(This is a question open to theory. I ask everyone to keep open minds, and it's fine to have some closure for self, but for the sake of others and their theories, do not assume your answer is the true, (or) only answer).

-Thank you

[TheSpaceGnome]

They weren't anywhere.

I can confirm that all religions are false because creationism, souls, and omnipotence are verifiably impossible.

[DJB72]

Really?

Explain the existence of life.

Better yet, explain how the universe exists. Explain the Big Bang.

[TheSpaceGnome]

@DJB72 Ok.

Life is a catalytic eventuality of chemical interactions under certain conditions, in which parts of the universe begins to understand itself through the development of biological sensors/sensory organs.

The universe always existed because beginings and ends are impossible. The local big bang was an event within our region of the universe that is suspected to have caused new local clusters of galaxies and other astronomical bodies to form and drift apart from eachother/collide into eachother.

[TheSpaceGnome]

What I mean by beginings and ends being impossible in this context, is that the universe is everything to have ever existed anywhere, so any claim of "this is before or after the universe, or outside of the universe", I simply say "sorry, thats all still part of the universe too".

[TheSpaceGnome]

Creationism is false because it implies that something came from nothing, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, and the universe always existed for this and other reasons.

Souls aren't real because degenerative brain diseases like dementia exist (if the mind were the soul rather than the brain, dementia could not happen from mere physical degeneration).

Omnipotence is impossible because its self contradictory (it requires something being true and false at the same time), thus omnipotent beings (gods) cannot exist. An example of this, is if you asked a being to make something too heavy for it to lift. You would end up with it either not being omnipotent because it can't lift it, or alternatively, it not being omnipotent because it can't make it.

[Andres77]

It was humans that committed those atrocities…

[DJB72]

The Judean God is the God of Christianity. Of the eight billion people on earth right now roughly two thirds ascribe to some form of Christianity as their religion.

As someone who is Born Again, I question the percentage of those who are actually Christian rather than just religious but it's still a statistically massive number.

Where is God? He's all around you.

The most common mistake is people assuming that God controls the universe. He doesn't. The Bible makes it quite clear that when He made the physical universe He gave "dominion" to Mankind - physical humans. We were designed to be perfect and live in relationship with Him. For relationship to work it requires Free Will.

Man chose not to remain in relationship with God and the universe suffers the effect of that choice.

The central tenet of Christianity is that in order to recover Dominion over the physical, God had two choices: destroy everything and start again - which would be Justice for breaking His Law - or find a perfect human who would fulfil the Requirements of the Law for all time. He chose the second option by becoming a human Himself and accepting the penalty for breaking His Own Law Himself.

Why?

Even as a Christian I used to wonder. Then I became a father. I'd die to protect my son. I have no question in my heart of that.

If I, as a flawed, broken man, would die for my child, why wouldn't God do the same for billions of His Children? It's arrogance to assume He wouldn't. It's ignorance to state "categorically" He wouldn't.

It's beyond ignorant to declare omnipotence to be impossible - unless you are actually omniscient yourself.

Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon. The wealthiest man who ever lived. He tried everything. Literally. To find meaning in life.

He reached the conclusion that without God life is pointless and the answer is suicide. Read it. It's in there.

Job is the story of a man who loses everything physically. His family are killed. His property destroyed and stolen. His health stripped away to the point where he's barely breathing.

His conclusion is that without God, nothing has meaning so nothing he's lost is important because he still has God and nothing can take Him away, so with nothing but God, Life is meaningful.

It's the same conclusion that Solomon came to.

You ask where God is. Open your heart and mind to the possibility that the reason you're asking is because He's whispering to you. Calling your name.

[TheSpaceGnome]

You can't claim its ignorant to say omnipotence is impossible when:

A: omnipotence is a self contradictory concept (as I explained in my comment).
And
B: You use a story book as a way to obtain what you consider to be facts.

It's a very unscientific viewpoint to have.

[NathanDavis]

to be fair... our local gods announced the doom, and also the rebirth...

evolution and change, adaptation... and then yes, we did