(May 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: 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:Missed the point.
You didn't create the driver with the propensity to destroy something you created. You also didn't create the driver with that propensity and simultaneously create an eternal punishment for that propensity using the same rules.
Did not have to create him, I knew the possibility he could run through the garden and when he did I took the appropriate actions, just as God did. The garden is back as it was because I took the action to fix it, the driver has received his punishment.
(May 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: 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.
Fidel Wrote:Copout.
Your god created lucifer with the foreknowledge he would become satan (using the idea that it's omni-faceted).
You haven't destroyed your box, you've just imagined it away, which is entirely expected
Foreknowledge has nothing to do with God being responsible for Lucifer's fall, Lucifer had a choice to make and he made the wrong one. Do you think that that was the only decision he could have made, how many different paths could he have traveled, do you think that God did not see those. Yes He did and thus gave Lucifer the chance to do what was right.
(May 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: There is no difference between a desire and a want, nether are absolute for your personal survival. Gees.
Fidel Wrote:Sorry, I misread thinking you'd written desire and want Implying no synonymous link.
But again, I know this will just go entirely over your head, but an omni-faceted god is by definition perfect, it would want/need/desire for nothing. The idea that a perfect being would create something and desire their worship is, well, quite sickening really.
Why is it sickening, I see it as the greatest loving relationship possible. Worship is loving God, through many different ways, but all within God's will. Why in God's will Because He is omniscient and knows what will make the best life for us, He gave you the free will to reject His will, you are not being forced into anything to do with God. I believe God wanting/desiring my love is an awesome thing and I see the great things that come from such a relationship.
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.