 | | Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | (...) Sorry, if God created everything, God created evil--at least, the capacity for it. Are you implying there are limits to the power of God? Also, good and evil are subjective concepts, arrived at by consensus--though in dogmatic (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer) —Ian Warfield
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| | | | (...) This is the key distinction. God created beings with free will, but free will necessitates the possibility of rebellion. God created the universe with the possibility of evil. This is not the same thing as creating evil itself. He allows it, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | The god debate again... sigh^h^h^h^h yawn —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) You're wandering into the "Can god make a stone so large he cannot lift it?" thicket. Here there be tygers. I note you did not address my previous post on "Why this discussion now? Did you do your homework before starting?" but just ignored (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: The god debate again... sigh^h^h^h^h yawn —Ian Warfield
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| | | | (...) Indeed. I would say that there is no answer to this question, because it's a logical contradiction. God can lift anything He wants, and God can make anything He wants. But God wouldn't set out with the express purpose of making a stone too big (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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