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My reasoning in rejecting eternal torture/hell...
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RE: My reasoning in rejecting eternal torture/hell...
@ missluckie26

First off, I love the Holy Grail. My favorite of their movies. I watched it just last Monday. Anyway, on to the real stuff.

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent."

Its the last conclusion you got wrong. God is entirely able, and if he weren't, he would not be omnipotent, yes, but will is a different matter. I can will to go to the football game, and I can go. I can will that I make a sammich, and I make one. However, sometimes we can only will one of two options. Pretend you have to paint a wall in your house. Pretend you like both blue and green, but not teal. You can only paint it one color. It is impossible that the whole wall (one color) be both blue and green, so instead you decide on one. Equally, if I'm fishing with my philosophy professor and my mother (both cannot swim), and both go overboard simultaneously with time only to save one, I might want both saved, but only one will happen (your supposed to save your mother, btw).

In the case with God, he does not want evil, but simultaneously he wants creatures with free will. He can either have robots and no evil or people with evil (although there will be no evil further down the timeline). He is choosing people. Currently, there is evil, mainly because we cause it. God doesn't prevent other evils because we're total butt holes to him (and death is not non-existence).
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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RE: My reasoning in rejecting eternal torture/hell... - by Tex - March 28, 2013 at 11:14 pm

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