(January 29, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: The problem is, God is irrational as a concept. I have posted here to the problem of God's super-omniscience. Then there is the unsolvable issue of God's omniscient and free will. The problem of God and time, the Problem of Evil and other conundrums. Ir has been an issue for many years that a chain made up of weak links is not a chain that can be used. The weak conjectures about God are not accumulative.
What is the basic Christian world view. Martin Luther's "Bondage of the Will" goes through the Bible and demonstrates that Biblically, free will is dogmatically impossible. But if so that means all we do is caused by God. And God than causes all moral evil. Doesn't that make God evil? Luther states he wishes he had not been born a man that had to deal with this terrible problem. How does Luther deal with the issue? Echoing Roman 11:33 he tells us God is inscrutable. That is logic and reason are abandoned for obscurantism. Calvin is not any better, and nobody else has solved the conundrum.
Natural religion, proving God exists has been a bust since Plato invented it in his "Laws - Book X". The literature on Natural Religion is vast and it has been admitted by philosophers of religion to date to have failed. There are no good proofs for God's existence and many good proofs demonstrating God is a doubtful idea.
You point out a teaching that I did not like either. There are different views than Martin Luther's. Check out Molinism
I posted this back a ways:
Free will is not the ability to choose differently in identical circumstances. It is not being caused to do something by causes other than oneself. God's knowledge of all the components that goes into your choice beforehand in no ways denies free will.
What I believe is that God considered every feasible universe in which he made man with free will, with his "middle knowledge" considered what every person would do in any circumstance, and actualized the one with the greatest good both now in in eternity.
Regarding omnipotence, we are unable to see the trillions upon trillions of causes and effects in the world AND eternity and therefore are not in a position to judge if God did not have morally sufficient reasons to allow an "evil" event to occur.