Who knows? (I do! I do!)

Grampa C,

It seems to me that both you and Boyd are just creating whatever kind of God you need to enable yourself to believe in God. For you to believe in God, you need him to be omnipotent. Why? What if God is inside and subject to time, but he still reigns over heaven and judges our souls and created us and insprired the bible and fathered Jesus Christ? What if (somehow) you came to know all this but that God can't see our choices before we think them? Would you seriously choose to not believe in this God?

I guess by this point in the narrative you'd at least have to believe he exists.

How do you KNOW that God IS omnipotent? regardless of which scenario is more likely neither possibility is extinguished. so why decide now without the proof?

Ultimately I think it's good to pick sides and beliefs if only for a little while to see if you really believe them. But if your always open to change and reinterpretation do you really ever believe anything? Does it matter? If your goal is to land in heaven then yeah it matters. what if you had no goals? I don't think that's possible. Maybe if you could really eliminate all goals from your mind, you'd just leave your body and move on.

Buddhism isn't about "feeling good" and solving personal problems.

The best thing you can do to save our environment is die.

Sniffles