(October 16, 2014 at 11:49 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: That's an excellent point. If God's infiniteness was limited to His 'age' then your reducto absurdum would be well stated and I would agree with you. Is it true that God's infiniteness is limited to His age? No. He is eternal in age (Rev 1:8, 22:13), in knowledge (1 John 3:20), in presence (Jer 23:23-24). The point here is that a crime against an infinite being would be infinite in nature and would therefore require an infinite punishment.But you are still linking the severity of the punishment to something outside of the act itself. Do we lessen the punishment for crimes committed against the mentally retarded, since they are more limited in knowledge or presence?
Nor have you explained why a crime against an infinite being requires an infinite punishment. Requiring something implies an obligation, and that seems unlikely to apply to god. I am assuming that you agree that god is not forced to punish anyone?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
