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To: DannyTN
God can be pure good and still create the potential for evil in the universe.

That is an article of faith. It does not follow from reason.

God can be infinite (i.e. omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent) without bein omnicontrolling and without forcing His will on beings created by Him to have free will.

Nonsense. Refer back to the discussion on the finiteness of free will. I linked it for you already. Free will is not absolute, and so if it was created, it had limits forced upon it.

231 posted on 04/11/2005 1:59:23 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
That (God can be pure good and still create the potential for evil in the universe) is an article of faith. It does not follow from reason.

The inverse certainly does not follow from reason. The inverse says that any God that would create you is evil. I for one am grateful that He created me and do not blame him for my bad choices, even though He gave me the freedom to choose.

"Free will is not absolute, and so if it was created, it had limits forced upon it."

Free will does indeed have limits. So what? You are arguing that anything less than absolute lack of freedom to choose evil, is itself evil. You are arguing for your own destruction. If that's what you want to do, so be it. But leave me out of your argument. I believe God was good for creating me, not evil. I'm thankful that He created me.

For that matter, I'm thankful that He created you too. Heaven might end up without an AntiGuv in it. But at least AntiGuv was given the chance.

244 posted on 04/11/2005 2:12:30 PM PDT by DannyTN
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