From: utzoo!watmath!djhawley
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: omnipotence implies what?
Article-I.D.: watmath.4885
Posted: Thu Apr  7 14:00:13 1983
Received: Fri Apr  8 04:43:25 1983
References: watmath.4864


I think you are insisting that God do the logically impossible.
Either that, or you are claiming an unbelievable intellect.

What God intends ( read "would have wanted to happen" ), and what happened
( due to free will ) differ. Although God knew what would happen,
apparently he was stuck with the logical impossibility of depriving free
beings ( in the moral sense ) of moral freedom.

Apparently, God felt it was worth it. You don't.

I recall that the issue of eternity was brought up ( I didn't ).
>From that standpoint ( putative eternal bliss/completion ),
1-1000 years of even total misery doesn't even register.

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Sometimes I can't help but get the feeling that some of you anti-God
flamers ( I'm not using this as a prejorative ), would like to blame
the universe for a raw deal, and send your scream into the eternal NIL_PTR.

Curiously, some people ( christian theists - maybe others ) who feel there
is Something out there to hear the scream, don't tend to scream as much
as you would expect. Are they all deluded, brainwashed mindless peoploids,
living in pre-intellectual times ? That's one way of dismissing an
argument I guess.


           A flaming we will go,
           A flaming we will go,
           Toasting 'mallows on the Net
           A flaming we will go.

David Hawley.