RE: Why did god create evil?
October 24, 2011 at 6:57 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm by Jackalope.)
(October 24, 2011 at 7:52 am)lucent Wrote: Foreknowledge doesn't rule out free will. Foreknowledge doesn't force you to do something, nor does it prevent you from doing something.
I call bullshit.
If god has foreknowledge that I will do 'X', how can I possibly do anything but 'X'?
(October 24, 2011 at 9:39 am)lucent Wrote: Again, knowing how someone will act doesn't change that they had a choice to act that way, or not. If you created them to act that way, then no they had no choice. If you created them so they could act one way or another, and you knew which way it would be, it doesn't mean you created them to make that choice, if they had equal opportunity to make either choice. It means you chose to create a person who would have certain opportunities to make choices, and he chose to use those opportunities to make specific choices of his own preference. Does that mean he had no free will? No it does not.
Cognitive dissonance.