Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!speaker From: speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: More on the premises Message-ID: <4792@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 20:51:22 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.4792 Posted: Tue Jan 17 20:51:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jan-84 01:27:50 EST References: <499@ihuxn.UUCP> <6609@unc.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 41 My response to the initial question, "What right have we to judge G-d?" was twofold: (1) We have the right to judge because we have been given the right to judge and asked to use it. At all points in the Bible man is asked to discern right from wrong, good from evil, sin from blessing, truth from falsehood. Not so. Man STOLE the knowledge of good and evil in direct disobedience of God's command. But wait. Even if this ability to discern good from evil was stolen, that still doesn't change the fact that we HAVE the ability to judge. Perhaps God invalidates our judgement of him on the basis that he cannot be judged through ill-gotten means. Given that we have both the capacity and the criterion to make judgements, Nice... I like that. Both the criterion and capacity. the question becomes what gives us the right *not* to judge? Well, these points don't make us omniscient or guarentee that we will ever be able to process all the information that omniscience would give us. In this respect, we are no where near God's capacity to intellectually judge. Also, it's his universe so we can assume that he has plans for it... plans that preclude our meddling in cosmic judgements. On the other hand, a right (by my definition) is something that no one else may deny you. Certainly the task of judging God is something that this self-same God has denied us. Yet sanctioning it or denying it... people still do it! -- - Speaker speaker@umcp-cs speaker.umcp-cs@CSnet-Relay