(June 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm)John V Wrote: You're not following my argument.
I haven't contested that god's omniscience precludes free will. That argument can be made in a number of ways, and is how this discussion usually goes. But I haven't done that. I'm granting you that omniscience precludes free will for this discussion.
My question is, who/what has a right not to suffer?
Does a character in a book have a right not to suffer? Sounds ridiculous, right? However, you appear to be using omniscience to reduce us to nothing more than characters in a very complex story.
Take the blood of one of those characters and wipe it on my face. Until you do that your talking point is absurd.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.