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To: general_re
Do you still think that omnipotence and perfect goodness can be reconciled?

I think it tends to be good to go to bed earlier on a Saturday night.

I wasn't really asking for a 21st Century commentary to the dead Brit's ;-` work, but thank you. What I'm saying is looking at the world and trying to learn such a thing about God from it is, well, why bother? And my point especially is that while the answer to your question is it, with all due apologies, is a non sequitur. But then I'm one of those guys who reads things like Job and Ecclesiastes and Ephesians and believes that God inspired the messages He means for us, through the writing that was done therein.

My further point is that since we know the world all too well but don't know God well enough, we might give him the benefit of the doubt as we doubt, by looking more closely into just what we're doubting about him. If he is good and omnipotent, surely he wants to see the suffering put to an end and surely there is a reason it's here and a reason God, who may just be suffering most from it lets it stick around awhile, and if he's really, really, good, he may have just devised a way to tell us what we really need to know about him, in spite of it all, which may just be the most important thing the knowing of which ultimately clears it all up.

But since betty boop hasn't answered and since there seems to be such an axiomatically 'philosophical' motif to this thread, I wouldn't want to through a wet blanket on the matter, by explaining what I think he tells us. That would be starting with the premise that God is good enough to reveal himself to us all, and all-powerfully able to make sense to us, even if through a glass darkly. You know. It would be Chriatian.

535 posted on 05/04/2003 1:44:35 AM PDT by unspun (I think it's about someone.)
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To: unspun
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536 posted on 05/04/2003 1:49:55 AM PDT by unspun (I think it's about someone.)
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