(June 12, 2010 at 12:30 pm)tavarish Wrote: 1. You didn't answer my question. I asked you why God has a nature, not if he HAS to have a nature. Why does God have a particular nature instead of no nature or a different nature?
(June 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God's nature is what we try to understand it to be. It's how we label things. Like his signature... it's what, given what we've all worked out from simple deduction, we can expect him to do.
You have still to explain WHY God has a specific nature, which was my question.
(June 12, 2010 at 12:30 pm)tavarish Wrote: I'm asking if God can do things like lie and create a squared circle, and if not, why not?
(June 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It follows from our logical construct of God. If he did create everything, then he is a positive force. Etc.. God could do whatever the hell God wanted. We could get very theoretical but it doesn't help understand God much.
How would that be a positive force?
And if God could do something else, like act in another fashion, why does he not do it?
(June 12, 2010 at 12:30 pm)tavarish Wrote: It is assumed God is the creator, but why is this so?
(June 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It fits with the rest of the idea. Theology describes the whole of humanly perceived reality.
That doesn't make sense. You essentially said God is assumed to be the creator because it fits with the idea that God is the creator - a tautology.
(June 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: His nature is that he can do anything. His signature is what he's done in our reality.
So why has he conformed to a specific nature? What's stopping him from doing "anything"?
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