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RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 3:01 pm
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A bit spotty, too. For most of life, on this planet alone....no such compromise was made. We're just lucky, I suppose....
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RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 3:03 pm
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(November 11, 2022 at 2:55 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: (November 11, 2022 at 2:39 pm)Ahriman Wrote: I don't know about suffering in Hell, or how/why it would be worse than suffering in this life, but in terms of suffering in this life, God probably figured it was better for humans to suffer and exist than not suffer and not exist, by which I mean, suffering might have been an essential ingredient when creating humanity.
If God had to make an engineering compromise just to get humans to live he sounds more like an alien from an advanced civilization than the creator of reality itself.
Well yeah, that might just be what God actually is.
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RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 4:49 pm
(November 11, 2022 at 2:55 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: (November 11, 2022 at 2:39 pm)Ahriman Wrote: I don't know about suffering in Hell, or how/why it would be worse than suffering in this life, but in terms of suffering in this life, God probably figured it was better for humans to suffer and exist than not suffer and not exist, by which I mean, suffering might have been an essential ingredient when creating humanity.
If God had to make an engineering compromise just to get humans to live he sounds more like an alien from an advanced civilization than the creator of reality itself.
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RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 5:09 pm
(November 11, 2022 at 3:03 pm)Ahriman Wrote: (November 11, 2022 at 2:55 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: If God had to make an engineering compromise just to get humans to live he sounds more like an alien from an advanced civilization than the creator of reality itself.
Well yeah, that might just be what God actually is.
So, not a void, then?
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RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 5:34 pm
(November 11, 2022 at 5:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 11, 2022 at 3:03 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Well yeah, that might just be what God actually is.
So, not a void, then?
Boru
I think it could be conceptualized as a void, or aliens, or anything else. I think "God" is allowed to have multiple forms.
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