RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 27, 2013 at 10:55 pm
(October 27, 2013 at 6:18 am)Esquilax Wrote:(October 26, 2013 at 9:50 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Omnipotence is Gods ability to do anything He WANTS to do.
But God is not compelled to do anything.
But if god wanted to do something, he'd be able to? So... he can do anything. Why did you bother classifying this?
Because some people think God is compelled to do stuff just because we cant understand His action/inaction.
...God must be impotent because He doesnt do 'xyz' and we think He should
(October 27, 2013 at 6:18 am)Esquilax Wrote:Quote:People mistakenly think omniscience is a separate quality of God's nature.
But the verb "to know" is a merely a sub-set of God's abilities of which there are many things He can 'do' if He wants.
Can God know the future if He wants? Of course.
Is He compelled to constantly know every aspect of the future. No. Why would He, of all people, need to worry about what might happen as a result of human free will?
So there are things that god doesn't know? Oh, this should be fun.
There is nothing that God is incapable of knowing anytime He chooses.
Do you agree that God could, if He wanted, choose not to be mindful of something in the future?
...yeah but God, arent you worried about people with free will (like satan) doing stuff unexpectedly?
God - No. I'm God. I can cross that bridge when I come to it. If I feel like it. If I let it get that far. Besides, why would I want to fast forward to the end of the movie?
