(May 8, 2013 at 2:01 pm)Undeceived Wrote:(May 8, 2013 at 11:20 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: Whoa, keep in mind...I'm not arguing that God has ANYTHING. I'm just saying that if anyone is to say that God has ANYTHING, as a property of Him, and they also assert that God's potential is unlimited, to imply any sort of limit to WHATEVER they assert to be one of His properties, that is a contradiction. If ones capacity to be benevolent has limits, then yes, in that sense it is an example of a limit placed on an ability possessed by a supposed limitless being. That would be a contradiction.
What makes you say benevolence is a capacity and not a choice?
I think I see what you're saying. There doesn't have to be a limit to one's ability to choose benevolence in order for them to have an infinite amount of opportunities to choose malevolence instead. Is that right? So, anyone could really be infinitely benevolent, and yet continue to demonstrate it.
I guess the question is...
1)For every malevolent choice, is their an opposite benevolent option?
2)And if so, what is to be said of an individual that chooses manevolence more often when a benevolent option is available?
3)What then would be the reason for such a thing to NOT be an option, and if one is the all powerful God, why would this be outside their ability to make it so?