(January 23, 2016 at 5:22 pm)Aegon Wrote: Why does an all-powerful God have to exercise his power? Why can't he want something without making it happen or making himself clear to us? My girlfriend is sometimes mad at me for something and wants me to apologize and feel bad about it without actually telling me what it is she's upset about. She could tell me, but she wants me to realize my alleged wrongdoings myself and take the initiative to apologize. If my girlfriend can do it, why can't God? In this scenario, God could want humans to repent and reach salvation independently as something of a test.The test by which a person is "saved" (from what?) involves an intellectual recognition of this being's immaterial, vague, objective existence? Could any gratuitous desires be more trivial?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
