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To: AntiGuv
"More importantly, he would be a dualist god, in which case there is no rational way to assess his credibility. "

So what? He's the one who's going to judge you. If He says the penalty for sin is death and you choose to remain in sin because you don't believe Him, will...good luck with that.

Can you find fault with His commandment to you to "depart from evil and do good"? No, of course not. So if you fail to do it, what excuse are you going to have? That God was evil increating you with the potential to do evil? Even if you win the argument, God will simply rectify His mistake. This is a tails you lose, heads you lose strategy.

125 posted on 04/11/2005 12:19:08 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
So what? He's the one who's going to judge you.

Yes, but an evil god can lie, and there is no rational way to determine whether or not he is lying.

Can you find fault with His commandment to you to "depart from evil and do good"?

Yes, it's meaningless without a definition of good & evil.

That God was evil increating you with the potential to do evil?

An evil god would be rational, we just couldn't make a rational determination of the practical implications....

Even if you win the argument, God will simply rectify His mistake.

Sure, but an omniscient god would know if I had any faith or if I was just carrying on a charade out of "just-in-case" fear. If a god created me, then he quite obviously created me such that I would not believe in him, and who am I to challenge that?

138 posted on 04/11/2005 12:32:23 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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