RE: Question about two possible attributes of God
June 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2013 at 5:11 pm by bennyboy.)
(June 6, 2013 at 4:23 pm)John V Wrote: They don't bite or sting or carry disease. They just annoy me. So, if other creatures annoy me and can't fight back, that's an acceptable circumstance to kill them?I find it a little funny that in this age of established science, the idea of God as experimenter doesn't come up much. The Bible explicitly says that God gave us free will but wants us to behave a certain way. This sounds like a psych experiment to me.
It may be that God's omniscience doesn't extend to time, because time is in fact not a dimension, and there's nothing to be omniscient about. IF God created creatures with free will, and IF time is not a dimension where you could theoretically look into the future and see how things turn out, then there's no conflict-- except "If God is really all powerful and omniscient, he could have created a universe where he could see the future." But that's pretty weak.
The bigger problem with God isn't this stuff about free will and morality; we're not confined to the morality of ants, if such a thing even exists. It's the fact that nobody can define a specific God who doesn't instantly fail to logic and lack of evidence, and any general God concept fails to lack of disprovability.
