RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 21, 2017 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2017 at 3:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 21, 2017 at 1:38 pm)alpha male Wrote: No one's given a reason that it wouldn't, so at this point - yes, a person who thinks that omniscience precludes free will should also think that God is without free will.Unless god's a special case. OFC you believe that god is that special case, in just about every way - so it's likely that people are responding to that special case concept of god that everyone involved knows damned well you believe in...don't you think? Perhaps god's future actions are unknowable even though ours are knowable..at least to him. Since god only knows what can be known, he can't know what he will do someday. Mysterious ways, and all that, lol.
Quote:No.-ta dah. Glad to clear that up for you. Some People wonder why an intentional god with free will and attributes that would both preclude our own free will, affirm it's absolute righteousness, and establish it's status as the creator... finds itself judging automatons for what he always knew they would do, after creating them exactly the way that he did.
"You too!" might work for 90% of the shit you personally get called out on in life, but it won't address that. Is it an article of christer faith that any question as to the consistency of this "god" nonsense can be sufficiently answered with batshit accusations?
Personally, I;m fine with the notion of some sort of automaton god - and that's certainly been a common concept of god throughout time and culture, so much so that it echoes in christian apologetics, with god unable to do or be evil because that;s against it's nature. If gods behavior is somehow directed by his nature as ours is obviously directed by our own, then that god would have no more control over what it did than we do. OTOH, then, god's actions would just be natural, not right. We commonly accept that people incapable of self control are not..themselves, moral agents..though we can usually identify what they;ve done as an immoral act. Some of the criminally insane, for example. Ultimately..it makes more sense than endless special cases and categorical inconsistencies - it might also explain botflies. I'm not convinced that god exists either, but it's a logical step up from your own.
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