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To: PeterPrinciple

Yes, there is much more.

I don’t know if you were following the point of my post.

It was simply that it’s impossible to change the topic from being about God to being about love, since God is love and every time we speak of God we’re necessarily speaking about love. That’s all.


310 posted on 09/03/2023 6:07:13 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith; PeterPrinciple
It was simply that it’s impossible to change the topic from being about God to being about love, since God is love and every time we speak of God we’re necessarily speaking about love. That’s all.

Objection, Your Honor!

Unnecessarily introducing additional terms - even SYNONYMS, if not everyone is "onboard" with them - or controversies only muddies the water and impairs the discussion!

The participants, so far, have more or less explicitly or tacitly RESOLVED that the concept of "God" pertains to an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent supreme being. (The original essay as much as established this basis.)

The OP then posited the query: How can God allow Evil / why doesn't He stop it from happening.

By introducing additional concepts or "buzzwords" (since "omnibenevolent" already more or less encompasses "love"), you distract and delay. It is as if you were to suddenly volunteer, "Well, God is also MALE." That may or may not be true - but all that will do is unnecessarily confuse things and introduce more controversy into the discussion at hand.

So, PLEASE: No unnecessary proliferation of terms!

Regards,

337 posted on 09/04/2023 2:54:23 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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