RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
June 6, 2020 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2020 at 10:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Works just as well on a deist god. Deist non-intervention was proposed as a way to explain the apparent lack of a gods intervention - but it might be the case that a gods ability and willingness to intervene are important attributes of divinity. That a god who can't or won't intervene is not a god, but something else.
The deist god is unlike all the others, in that regard, and that's a self imposed distinction of the position. The others...theistic gods, transactionary agents down to the last little godling. I suppose it's up to the reader to decide whether or not every other god is a poor example of the set, and that the term properly refers to the distinct set with just the one representative, instead.
Either way, can or should a deist god heal amputees? It doesn't, by definition, but that's not the item in question. There's no ground for retreat here. It's the same ground.
The deist god is unlike all the others, in that regard, and that's a self imposed distinction of the position. The others...theistic gods, transactionary agents down to the last little godling. I suppose it's up to the reader to decide whether or not every other god is a poor example of the set, and that the term properly refers to the distinct set with just the one representative, instead.
Either way, can or should a deist god heal amputees? It doesn't, by definition, but that's not the item in question. There's no ground for retreat here. It's the same ground.
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