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Epicurus riddle.
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RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:41 am
(February 1, 2016 at 8:34 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(February 1, 2016 at 8:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: God cannot act contrary to His own Nature.

Then God cannot act contrary to "The Good."   Problem solved.

Um...except shit still happens on his watch.

What's the fucker doing?
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RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:44 am
(February 1, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Does his goodness not compel him to act in those places he has denied his beneficence? Or is denying aid not an absence of good?

Wrong question. Why do some people turn down the love He ceaselessly offers and reject His blessings?
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#143
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:45 am
Ooh.  Ooh.  Because he doesn't exist!
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#144
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:51 am
(February 2, 2016 at 1:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Wrong question. Why do some people turn down the love He ceaselessly offers and reject His blessings?

Is something really turned down if no offer is ever made?
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#145
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 10:53 am
(January 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(January 29, 2016 at 1:49 am)Minimalist Wrote: Still conning yourself with fairy tales, G-C. 


  The Christian church is trying to help people who need clean water, it's why we were put here. What are you doing for them ?

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Only at the cost of what amounts to forced indoctrination.
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#146
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 10:56 am
(January 29, 2016 at 2:31 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(January 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm)Evie Wrote: Christians are cleaning up after God's mess huh?
GC, the point is if God exists he is allowing this shit,...

 Then you're saying it's fine with you for God to control your entire life, no freedom, no decisions, just be a puppet dancing to another's tune.

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My mom managed to keep a clean house without controlling every aspect of my life. Why can't your "omnipotent" gawd?!?
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#147
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 11:04 am
(February 2, 2016 at 1:41 am)Minimalist Wrote: What's the fucker doing?

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#148
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:22 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(February 1, 2016 at 8:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: God IS goodness and love. Evil is the absence of these things. The absence of God.

Yes, but is he goodness and love in a way that is incompatible with his omnipotence and the existence of evil, as the riddle asks?

Does his goodness not compel him to act in those places he has denied his beneficence?  Or is denying aid not an absence of good?

No. Though atheists like to think so. (It makes the rest of their belief system soooo much easier.)

Plantinga has already shown that the existence of evil is not incompatible with God. Heavy-weight scholars are satisfied with his solution.

Not saying that there won't be a few hard-core outliers (out & out liars?) who still object, but this issue is pretty much all over but the shouting. 

Only the uninformed continue squawking along these lines.
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RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:24 pm (This post was last modified: February 2, 2016 at 1:24 pm by athrock.)
(February 2, 2016 at 1:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote:
(February 1, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Does his goodness not compel him to act in those places he has denied his beneficence?  Or is denying aid not an absence of good?

Wrong question. Why do some people turn down the love He ceaselessly offers and reject His blessings?

Because they do not want to obey, to submit or to worship.

Hey, Satan knows who God is better than any of us, but he still preferred his own will to God's will because of his great self-love.

We're all guilty of this to varying degrees.
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#150
RE: Epicurus riddle.
February 2, 2016 at 1:25 pm (This post was last modified: February 2, 2016 at 1:25 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(February 2, 2016 at 1:24 pm)athrock Wrote:
(February 2, 2016 at 1:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Wrong question. Why do some people turn down the love He ceaselessly offers and reject His blessings?

Because they do not want to obey, to submit or to worship.

Hey, Satan knew who God is better than any of us, but he preferred his own will to God's will.

We're all guilty of this to varying degrees.

So..we all actually know God exists, but consciously turn away from him?
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