(March 17, 2013 at 12:12 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 16, 2013 at 7:24 pm)whateverist Wrote: To which I always want to ask but what if your god turned out only to be pretty darned powerful, but not over everything. And what if it only knew way more than anyone else but far less than everything.Those questions don't really apply to my conception of the Lord. My understanding of the Lord is very entangled with my beliefs about the nature of reality. I can say this though. I believe the Lord only knows what is possible to know. The future does not yet exist, so there isn't anything to have knowledge of. So I differ greatly from those who believe that God sees into the future.
That's interesting. If you believe the future is unknown to god and accept that evolution describes the manner in which all life has come to be in its present form on this planet then you must believe that god was not necessarily intending for man to be exactly as we are. Perhaps He would have been fine with it humans never existed.
Wait, even if god doesn't have perfect knowledge of the future you probably believe that god is powerful enough that if He intended to create man by way of evolution he could have made it work out this way. I'm not sure what you believe about the creation/evolution of man. Please tell.
