(May 19, 2011 at 6:15 am)Nimzo Wrote:Logic dictates nothing can fall outside of my assertion. Either refute it or qut replying.(May 18, 2011 at 6:42 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Let's assume what you've been saying is right, then these are the two knowns. God created everything, and evil exists. There are only three ways this is possible. God created it, he allowed it, or he screwed up and is inept to fix it.I am aware of your assertion - there is no need to restate it.
FaithNoMore Wrote:Here is a quote taken directly from one of your posts.Nimzo Wrote:Actually, it had everything to do with your post.No, it doesn't. The point of my post was a reductio ad absurdum to the view that if something is a noun, then it counts as a "thing" according to Proverbs 16:4. You have not referred to the text whatsoever.
Nimzo Wrote:How about "televisions" - they're nouns and things! Does the verse mean that God created televisions?Notice the part in bold where you flat out state God did not create televisions with a rhetorical question. I assert that if God created everything, and something exists, then he is either directly or indirectly responsible for it such as televisions or evil. You may have been attempting to define 'things' but you went beyond that in the second sentence.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell