RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 23, 2013 at 4:11 pm
(October 23, 2013 at 3:49 pm)John V Wrote: How else would you accomplish that?
How should I know how an omnipotent deity could create something? That doesn't take away from the fact that it is omnipotent and can create one thing without being forced to create something else.
(October 23, 2013 at 3:49 pm)John V Wrote: Actually most translations say he's "all-powerful." Personally I don't see teaching compassion as a function of power.
Omnipotent is synonymous with all-powerful.
(October 23, 2013 at 3:49 pm)John V Wrote: Where does my religion say that we'll have need for such things in the next life?
So, there is no compassion or generosity in heaven?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell