RE: The Problem of Imperfect Revelation: Your Thoughts?
July 13, 2013 at 4:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2013 at 4:24 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(July 13, 2013 at 3:58 am)Godschild Wrote: The government gives you the free will on deciding to smoke or not, you're not forced one way or the other, correct? However you are not free to exercise your right to smoke anywhere you desire, you are held accountable by laws.
That's a poor analogy to equate GC.
State laws on smoking can be changed. Indeed, we can see the people who make the laws that affect us, lobby them, talk to them, and so on. They are tangible people, and in most countries (in democracies at least) we can vote them out of office if their decision making is disagreeable.
Smoking laws to which we must abide and are held accountable to are nothing similar to 'transcendental' divine laws that we have absolutely no say over or right of appeal against. It's the constant paradox that those who forward the idea of divine free will come up against (and often just overlook or ignore), but your analogy is incorrect unless you're saying we can vote your god out of office because we disagree with it (if it even exists, but braket that out).