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To: MacDorcha
Why would that make any [such] deity irrelevant?

I've already answered that. Because such a god would be either:

All of those are irrelevant from a practical standpoint either because they are inherently so or because we cannot make a rational determination about them based on what evidence we have.

Any other formulation that preserves free will is irrational. The absence of free will would make the nature of god irrelevant from a practical standpoint because no decision would be our own.

110 posted on 04/11/2005 12:04:26 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

So we either have God, or God?

What you said would also imply that

A) God made us, thus he gave us freewill.

or

B) God made us, thus we don't have freewill.

but
C) Nothing made us, we formed ourselves.

would be wrong then, because freewill (even the illusion of it) would not exist, as we wouldn't have "not freewill" to compare it to.

Given that we have (even if it is an illusion) freewill, we must assume we have a God that gave it to us.

And if we DIDN'T have freewill, who's will would it be?


119 posted on 04/11/2005 12:14:18 PM PDT by MacDorcha ("Do you want the e-mail copy or the fax?" "Just the fax, ma'am.")
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