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To: AntiGuv
In other words, effect follows cause. If an omnipotent God did A, then He also did B and C and D and E and F ad infinitum. If the result of such a God's action is evil - however indirectly - then His action was an evil act, to whatever degree it resulted in evil.

So, you would agree, then, to arresting and executing the parents of a convicted murderer in addition to the murderer himself? Apparently, your logic finds them equally guilty. After all, the parents created him...

Your best logical answer is that if an omnipotent God exits, then nothing exists that He regards to be evil.

What makes evil bad?
172 posted on 07/22/2005 12:04:48 PM PDT by mike182d ("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
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To: mike182d

What makes pain painful?


177 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:03 PM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: mike182d

You don't believe in evil?


179 posted on 07/22/2005 12:08:41 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mike182d
A murderer's parents aren't omnipotent. Nice try. Try again.

What makes evil bad?

If an omnipotent god exists, then for our purposes evil is whatever said god regards to be evil.

192 posted on 07/22/2005 12:16:02 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: mike182d
After all, the parents created him...

Didn't you say earlier that only God can create?

198 posted on 07/22/2005 12:19:13 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: mike182d

PS. In case you want more clarification on the distinction between God's action of creating the man and the parent's action of conceiving that same man, then the difference is that God (as you've described him) knows the murderous outcome of his action in its totality. The murderer's parents do not. Moreover, God (as you've described him) retains full control over the actions of the murderous man and so obviously chooses to permit the murder to take place. The murderer's parents have no such control over their son's destiny.


206 posted on 07/22/2005 12:28:29 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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