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Omni​-​Absurd

from Truth Before Comfort by Buck Bowen

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Do you believe your God is all-knowing? That he has a plan?
That he’s aware of everything that happens in advance?
If this is true God knows which miracles he’ll make us see
And so it follows no amount of prayer is going to change a thing
If by divine intervention a miracle’s permitted
He doesn’t have a plan and makes arbitrary decisions
But he’s omniscient, which means from start to finish
Every outcome’s known to him like whose favorite sports team is winning
But can it be?
How can a disembodied god know how to hop on a trampoline?
Or compensate for an injured wrist
If God is all-knowing how does he know how to find out about what he’s ignorant? 1

I can create a mass of concrete so heavy I can’t lift it
Yet God cannot and he’s omnipotent…
And he’s also omnipresent
Yet he never seems to show up till it’s time to get the credit
Omni-benevolent, infinitely good
But it’s a little hard to see when you read his book
God himself said he created evil 2
And repented of his thoughts of doing evil to his people 3
If God is just, and justice is defined
As the punishment fits the crime
We have a contradiction
Because God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children 4
If God is merciful, and we’re defining mercy
As the punishment given being less than deserving
Then I’m asking why
Did God say “spare them not” 5 when massacring the Amalekites
He made his son into a culprit
How could I accept the gruesome death of another for my atonement?
This system seems wicked and filthy
Moral justice, cannot take the innocent for the guilty 6

I don’t need your God, your God needs me
Somebody’s got to pay for his employees
I find it rather odd your God needs so much help
When he’s omniscient, omnipotent, omni everything else

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from Truth Before Comfort, released September 13, 2013
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01. Three types of knowledge: personal, procedural, and propositional
•http://www.theoryofknowledge.info/what-is-knowledge/types-of-knowledge/

02. Isaiah 45:7 – “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”

03. Exodus 32:14 – “And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”

04. Exodus 20:5 – “for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.” Exodus 20:5 not only contradicts giving just punishment, but also 2 Kings 14:6 – “…every man shall be put to death for his own sin.”

05. 1 Samuel 15:3 – “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

06. “Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty…” Chapter VIII of The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Note: Various lyrics inspired by p. 332 and 333 of How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass by Christopher DiCarlo, 2011. As well as C. Dennis McKinsey’s lecture on Bible Errors, Contradictions, and Fallacies: youtube.com/watch?v=hE4Lbrik_eU Accessed 05/2013

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