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Omniscience and omnipotence (generally ascribed to God by mainstream Christianity) give concepts like "fair" the equivalent of a divide by zero. Ditto eternity. I love seeing serious discussion of the ideas, right up to but never at or past the point where the reasoning supposedly justifies doing actual harm to the participants (willing or not) - and, no, "saving their souls" is never a counterbalancing good.

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Most of the world didn't start believing in Zero as a number until after the 4th Century AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number). It didn't seem rational. "How can something be nothing?" And there is the divide by problem you mentioned... Eventually people realized that it was their approach to the problem that was flawed. The world accepted Zero and moved forward as a result.

I believe God is rational and therefore it is right for us to rationally evaluate the claims of gods and their proponents, however, we proceed with humility, because it follows that if God is God, then his ways are higher than ours.

Belief in God (and Zero) makes the most sense to me, even with my unanswered questions.

If we had the time, I would. I would seriously love to. However, HN isn't the place for it and I would only want to discuss it with someone seriously educated in Christian theology and the scriptures.

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