Is Bill Gates more powerful than God?

[styley]

Now, admittedly I didn't see the programme but apparently Bill Gates is going to use $24billion of his own money towards good causes. Say, for example, two people get an almost incurable disease ie, a lot of money will pay for an operation to cure it. Now, one person prays to God and the second writes a letter to Bill, and receives the amount of money for the operation. Who do you feel would survive and would you take any comfort from it?

[ELVIS68]

Yes, Bill Gates is real and exists

[Theland]

Don't you think God might use Bill Gates, and the money under his stewardship, for Gods' purposes, healing people by buying operations etc?
Can I prove it? No.
Can you disprove it? No.

[terambulan]

Bill Gates hasn't claimed/mentioned any affiliation to God.

Ur examples will be dealt with in their normal clinics as Bill Gates plans to donate his monies to charity who will use it for the causes they serve.

U obviously support B.Gates by using your computer......which I bet is Ms?

[styley]

If Bill said it had nowt to do with god would that be disproof theland?

[terambulan]

My belief says 'God moves in mysterious ways'! It could be assumed that God inspired Bill Gates to make his donation.....that's for an individual's opinion.

For me, I see B Gates as a 'Tekky' (someone who loves putting these gadgets and programs together). It so happened he hit the jackpot here (God's hand...??)

[Gromit]

God does not exist, but still manages to be more reliable than Vista.

[taichiperson]

Great one gromit - the ultimate answer!!!

[Goodsoulette]

hehehe gromit.


Im inclined to agree with Theland. The argument has so many loopholes as you are assuming that God exists.

On the wider scope, other than such a specific scenario, Bill Gates never makes me feel comforted or supported, or like I can get through my darkest hours.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Bill Gates is at best agnostic about God, but Theland's point has some merit, although he has the wrong deity. It is, of course, the much more sensible than God Flying Spaghetti Monster working through Gates.

[naomi24]

'God works in mysterious ways' is the ultimate cop-out. It grants God merit when required, and it absolves him from blame when required. He's got it all sewn up - he can't lose! Bill Gates is a successful human being who chooses to spend his money as he wishes.

If I needed that operation, I'd rather trust Bill to come up trumps than God.

[rojash]

Unfortunately, naomi24, if you trusted your operation to our Bill, you would probably need to have a reformat and clean install afterwards...

[naomi24]

That's probably about right rojash - but that could be better than nothing at all. :o)

[BillySugger]

'Vista works in mysterious ways'

[keyplus90]

Bill Gates is not the first or the last person with that much of wealth in this world. In fact he is not even a fraction of the few history tells us about. Few out of them claimed to be gods due to that power or wealth.

However few did use their God given wealth for good purposes. It is God's will whoever he chooses for these things. Now if you start believing in these people as God or more affordable and acceptable than God himself only because you can see them and not Him, then only result is that they passed the test and you failed.

[WaldoMcFroog]

As you suggesting God developed the Windows OS, SkyPlus?

Definitive proof he's not all powerful.

[keyplus90]

God gave ability to few humen to develop windows OS. Otherwise if it was in human hand then all of us should be able to do so. He gives one thing to one and another to someone else. If everyone should have been Doctor or rocket scientist then who would repair your boiler.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Shame he didn't do a better job of deciding who to gift with the power to invent Windows, isn't it?

Someone who could code it right the first time, for example?

[keyplus90]

Well said Waldo � You are today answering your own questions for some reason. If someone could code it right the first time then where would this idea come from that I said that Human do not know every thing, they may try and become better but will never be as complete as God is. Not even a fraction of that. Shame, few people may never learn that.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Yes, that's right, keyplus. That's the clear implication of what I said.

I say 'black' and you congratulate me on how well I typed 'white'... Sheesh.

[Octavius]

So the gist of the Q is that the non-believers would bow and pander to the accumulation of wealth and self-centred curing, rather than to any spiritual sense of well being and sharing?

Personally I would welcome any money from Bill Gates being sent to exactly those that need it most. My needs would come after them if there is some left over, all well and good, but I will still pray to God either way.