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Argument from Absoluteness
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RE: Argument from Absoluteness
I think you're subtly equivocating on slightly different meanings of "absolute." If you include relational properties as a possession of an entity, then nothing in a dynamic universe can be absolute. But I'd argue if the NATURE of the relational properties is always the same, you can still call it absolute. For example, if God is a philosophical quantity, anything could flow from it, so long as the nature of things is that things equally flow back to it.

As for personal relationships-- that's just Santa Claus with a different name. The idea that God is watching teenagers rub on out in the shower and saying "Tsk! Tsk!" is really no definition of God at all, in my opinion, since God, being eternal, should not be capable of changing emotions.
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Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 2:01 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 20, 2014 at 3:17 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 3:26 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 20, 2014 at 4:36 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 20, 2014 at 5:54 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 20, 2014 at 10:09 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 21, 2014 at 12:03 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 21, 2014 at 9:20 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by MindForgedManacle - January 21, 2014 at 10:48 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by bennyboy - January 22, 2014 at 8:18 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Anomalocaris - January 22, 2014 at 10:51 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 20, 2014 at 1:49 pm
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 22, 2014 at 9:17 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 22, 2014 at 2:30 pm
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 23, 2014 at 2:12 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by Angrboda - January 23, 2014 at 2:28 am
RE: Argument from Absoluteness - by max-greece - January 23, 2014 at 2:43 am

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