(April 16, 2016 at 12:43 am)Nihilist Virus Wrote: I posted this (along with a bit more stuff) a few days back in the apologetics area of Christian forums and have gotten no intelligent rebuttals yet. Thought I'd see what you all think. Maybe pretend you're Christian for a minute and try to tear it down.
1. Properties are either intelligently assigned or randomly assigned.
2. God has properties.
3. God was not assigned these properties by someone else.
4a. Assume God did not assign his own properties to himself.
5a. No one assigned God his properties, so they are not intelligently assigned.
6a. God's properties are random.
4b. Assume God did assign his own properties to himself.
5b. We can reasonably agree that God assigned himself his own properties according to his own preferences.
6bA. Assume God assigned himself his own preferences.
7bA. Before God assigned himself his own preferences, he did not have any preferences.
8bA. God assigned himself his own preferences randomly.
9bA. God assigned himself his own properties according to random preferences.
10bA. God's properties are random.
6bB. Assume God did not assign himself his own preferences.
7bB. God's preferences are not intelligently assigned.
8bB. God's preferences are random.
9bB. Go to 9bA.
http://www.christianforums.com/threads/t...d.7941675/
In your assumptions about God (assumptions lead to randomness or point thought to one's own opinion) you haven't reasonably included God's eternal existence. There has never been a time without Him and this in it's self leaves the human understanding of God in the realm of mystery, those mysteries that God hasn't revealed and want in this age. I suggest you deal with the eternal part of God first.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.