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Subject:	Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:30:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ian Warfield writes: > I neglected to respond to this... > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: > > And, remember, if God created all and is omnipotent, God > > also created evil and possesses the power to destroy it at > > any time. Evil is not merely the absence of good. > > God did not create evil. Evil is indeed the absence of good, just as cold > is the absence of heat, and centrifugal force is the absence of centripetal > force. Sorry, if God created everything, God created evil--at least, the capacity for it. Are you implying there are limits to the power of God? Also, good and evil are subjective concepts, arrived at by consensus--though in dogmatic Judaeo-Christiano-Muslim thought they're not, I realize that. best LFB

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		Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)
(...) This is the key distinction. God created beings with free will, but free will necessitates the possibility of rebellion. God created the universe with the possibility of evil. This is not the same thing as creating evil itself. He allows it, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)
I neglected to respond to this... (...) God did not create evil. Evil is indeed the absence of good, just as cold is the absence of heat, and centrifugal force is the absence of centripetal force. --Ian (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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