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To: Elsie

God is all-powerful, but that doesn’t accommodate some middle-schoolers smart-aleck demand that He be able to make a square circle, or create a rock too heavy for Him to lift. These are a special kind of impossible: they are logical absurdities.

Akin to that is the kind of arbitrary and capricious power which Islamic philosophers attribute to Allah. They say that the essence of his being is sheer will, and therefore there are no limits on what he can will, or do. Islam teaches that God (Allah) may choose goodness or love or truth, but that is not part of his essence. He could just as well choose evil, hatred and lies.

This differs radically from the True God. We know that the True God doesn’t just choose to love: God IS Love. He cannot act against love, not because it is beyond His power, but because it is a logical contradiction: if He acted against love, He would not be God.

Long story short, God does not commit adultery. If he did we’d know it wasn’t God.


226 posted on 06/20/2016 10:44:06 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. -Rom. 11)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; daniel1212; dragonblustar; ...
Long story short, God does not commit adultery. If he did we’d know it wasn’t God.

I fail to understand what goes on in the Catholic mind that would assign to God sin like adultery for having Mary conceive and bear the Messiah.

The Catholic's problem is that if placing Jesus in Mary's womb were enough for a charge against God of adultery, they you have a god who committed adultery.

Why?

Because Mary was already betrothed to Joseph when the angel came. She was already legally and technically married to him.

God KNEW that. He knew that Mary was technically and legally a man's wife.

God had two choices. Impregnate a single woman or impregnate a married woman. IN EITHER CASE, then, God, by Catholic reasoning, could be charged with sexual sin.

And this nonsense about a *special* marriage arrangement is total assumption and speculation without a shred of support for it anywhere. On the contrary, the more Catholic push it and rationalize, they worse their position becomes because it can be refuted on so many levels.

Your arguments just. don't. work.

269 posted on 06/20/2016 12:20:29 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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