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To: Alamo-Girl
Indeed, either/or (Aristotle's Law of the Excluded Middle) does not apply to God. If one presupposes that it does, he ends up anthropomorphizing God.

Woah. So God is both good and evil? True and false? Light and dark?

If you claim that the LEM does not apply to God, you destroy the possibility of any meaningful claim about God, because then the contrary of any claim (about God) is not ruled out. In other words, if you say "God is good", while denying that the LEM applies to God, then you are allowing that it could also be true that God is evil, when then makes hash of your claim that God is good, sincen to claim that God is good *means* (by implication) that God is not evil.

-A8

14,639 posted on 05/16/2007 7:20:08 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8; Alamo-Girl
In other words, if you say "God is good", while denying that the LEM applies to God, then you are allowing that it could also be true that God is evil

The relativistic quantum theory Christians will tell you that this is so because of the "observer" phenomenon. :)

14,660 posted on 05/16/2007 8:42:03 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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