(March 11, 2016 at 11:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 3:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I'm not placing restrictions on God; I'm saying God places them on himself. The Christian God values free will of humanity over trying to protect them from all forms of evil.
You've yet to explain the contradiction between the alleged omnipotence of this god and the alleged free will he has bequeathed us.
How is free will even possible under the eye of an omnipotent being? Can I decide to behave in a manner that violates his prescient knowledge? How can I surprise this god? If this god knows everything, he knows my every choice well before I am born. How can I choose to behave in a way he doesn't know beforehand without violating his attribute of omniscience?
... and the corollary to that is that if it doesn't surprise him, and if he doesn't take action to modify the results, how, exactly, is he not responsible?
Sorry, but this "free will" argument is, in the context of the claims made about the Judeo-Christian god, horseshit.
Yeah omni powers are just so theoretically unwieldy. What do you want to bet the Catholic church eventually let them go?
