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Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)
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Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:32:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ian Warfield writes:
> > 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.
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> Sorry, if God created everything, God created evil--at least, the capacity
> for it.
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, but does not sponsor it.
> Are you implying there are limits to the power of God?
I don't see how I'm implying that. God has the power to do anything which
requires power to do, but He works within a logical framework. Since God is
good, He cannot sin. This is not a detraction of God's power, but an
affirmation of His goodness: to sin would be to invalidate His perfect nature.
> Also, good and evil are subjective concepts, arrived at by consensus--though
> in dogmatic Judaeo-Christiano-Muslim thought they're not, I realize that.
Ok.
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> best
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> LFB
--Ian
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 | | The god debate again... sigh^h^h^h^h yawn
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| (...) You're wandering into the "Can god make a stone so large he cannot lift it?" thicket. Here there be tygers. I note you did not address my previous post on "Why this discussion now? Did you do your homework before starting?" but just ignored (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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