RE: Why Would God Hide?
November 19, 2014 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2014 at 7:34 pm by Smaug.)
The analogy with your children is not valid here. You're can try (with more or less confidence) to correct them afterwards, but you can't fully revert the consequences. If the consequences are severe enough or your children do one and the same bad thing more than once (which means that your parenting wasn't effective enaugh) you become angry. You're less angered with lesser ill-doings and more with more severe ones. And Yahweh is omnipotent which means that he for example could literary revert time and correct the situation. Or design the system so that there's no possibility for certain (bad) variants of actions. So, to sum it up once again: control = confidence = no reason to rage. The omnipotence thing is very tricky because it, to say so, comes also with divine moral responsibility. That, or the deity becomes an uber-Mengele to it's creations.
Speaking of free will, it's a subjective and a rather arbitrary notion. If we take it to the absolute than only the omnipotent God himself could have true free will. Humans, being physically limited, don't have completely free will.
Speaking of free will, it's a subjective and a rather arbitrary notion. If we take it to the absolute than only the omnipotent God himself could have true free will. Humans, being physically limited, don't have completely free will.