(August 14, 2010 at 5:06 am)tackattack Wrote: 1. knowing only good OR evil would not fit with "free" will therfore I believe with the knowledge of good and evil came choice to do evil or good (bein able to discern and clasify perhaps) and thus was born free will.
Then we could know both good and evil, and still choose to do good each time. God could've made us so that we freely chose good each time (assuming you subscribe to a compatibilist view of free will).
Quote:2. Natural suffering (earth quakes, tsunamis, etc.) is a direct result of natural processes and equate all things created under God.
So God is responsible.
Quote:4. Suffering (connotation aside) can be used to teach consequences to indiscriminant excercise of free will.
Only in the cases where moral evil is responsible. With natural evil, there seems to be no lesson we can learn.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
