(June 10, 2012 at 3:05 am)Godschild Wrote: Your opinion has no scriptural backing, God did not create man to sin, He created man with free will. He did not force man not to sin,
That's not what I said. Free will is, in xtian doctrine, the capacity to choose between acting in accordance with god's will or not. In other words, to sin, or not sin. Therefore, if god created man with free will, god created man with the capacity to sin.
You should note that the second paragraph isn't a claim that god created man with the propensity to sin. It's a hypothetical device intended to subtly illustrate the absurdity of both the claims of omniscience and for the absence of responsibility for his creation.
If god creates the capacity of sin, and is omniscient, he knows man will sin. Creating something with a known outcome makes one responsible for said outcome. At least that's the case for humans - and I tend to think that deities ought to be held to a higher standard. Or rather, I would think so, if they existed.
(June 10, 2012 at 3:05 am)Godschild Wrote: what kind of tyrant would God have been if He created man and then forced him to do only what God knows is best for man. If He had done that you would still be screaming blood murder, except you would do it very quite, so God would not strike you with a lightning bolt, because you dare disagree with Him.
Let's not forget that I don't believe a word of it to begin with, so statements about what I would or would not do are kind of silly.
