RE: Argument from evil, restated
May 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 3:55 pm by Godscreated.)
(May 22, 2013 at 11:20 am)Godschild Wrote:
Fidel Wrote:The difference being that you didn't create the truck with the foreknowledge that it would one day crash into your garden and mess up your tulips.
How do you know I did not fix-up the truck and sell it to him, knowing he was a very bad driver who could possibly run through my garden. Does this mean I should forego my garden, I hardly think so. I should do just as God did, have a judgement brought upon the driver and then fix what he destroyed.
Fidel Wrote:The whole perspective you've taken puts you in a box. You can't get around it by saying "but Satan!" when satan was a creation of god, you know, the all powerful, all knowing being that, by definition, must have known already what would happen the moment he 'created' satan (it would have actually known it in time immaterial if it's omni-faceted, but w/e).
What I explained above destroys the box you want to put me in. By the way God created Lucifer, it was Lucifer who made himself into Satan.
(May 23, 2013 at 12:28 am)Godschild Wrote: God needs nothing and never has,
Fidel Wrote:Ok.
(May 23, 2013 at 12:28 am)Godschild Wrote: His omni........ takes care of that, He does desire our love for Him and a desire is far different than a need.
Fidel Wrote:How?
It surely don't mean that, but encase you are serious I'll explain. A need is something to sustain one's self. A desire is something one wants but does not need to be sustained. Simple really.
Fidel Wrote:What's the difference between "I desire to have sex with my wife" and "I want to have sex with my wife"?
There is no difference between a desire and a want, nether are absolute for your personal survival. Gees.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
