Posted on 12/12/2007 9:47:32 AM PST by coffee260
If He is omnipotent, how can we have free will?
EXACTLY RIGHT!
The concept of free will escapes many people, that’s why it’s important to study Scripture, it’s not just about “feelings”.
...and we know that Democrats exercise their free will with impunity. After 31 yrs. in law enforcement, I would have liked to take this person out and SHOWED him what human beings are capable of and then let him tell me evil doesn’t exist, but alas, I’m retired from that...
LOL!
The range of the American Crow extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in Canada, on the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, south through the United States, and into northern Mexico.[1] Virtually all types of country from wilderness, farmland, parks, open woodland to towns and major cities are inhabited.---American Crow
A philosopher once said ( I forget which one)
“I believe in God. Why? Because is it better to believe in a God that doesnt exist than to not believe in one who does.”
Very logical.
If He is omnipotent, how can we have free will?Favorite question of college freshman the world over.
The professor is a moron.
So I guess what you are saying is that even though He is omnipotent He chose to give us the ability to commit evil.
Why do you suppose he did that?
I have never seen a scarecrow in an Iowan cornfield. And brother, I spent 20 years on the farm.
Interesting. Maybe the folks in Iowa are better shots, and the crows know it. Or maybe the crows just think it.
There, finished it.
Because omnipotence necessarily carries with it the capacity to modulate the use of potency.
Don’t you love the arrogance of this professor when he substitutes his wisdom and reasoning for God’s will?
“If God can heal someone and doesn’t, He’s not good.”
So I guess what you are saying is that even though He is omnipotent He chose to give us the ability to commit evil.So we wouldn't be robots? So our appreciation of Him would actually mean something?Why do you suppose he did that?
So, is free will God's failure? Why would something created by God's perfection (free will) spout evil? Wouldn't that imply that God's creation (free will) is inherently imperfect, simply because this creation begets evil?
I mean, if something is created by a force that cannot err, then by the very definition used to describe the perfection of the creator disintegrates, if the creation of that perfect force allows something imperfect (evil) to be produced.
A factory tests its products because the factory is not perfect. Why is there a need for God to test His creations?
If the above seems offensive, kindly ignore them. I'm only interested in genuine answers to the questions above.
It’s not science that has the problem with God. All my professors were Christians.
Its the atheists who have the problem.
Except no real atheists professors would ever talk this way. This is as realistic as a Nancy Drew novel.
I’ve been reading several texts on how scientific discovery lately has been inexorably pointing to the existance of a Creator.
Privileged Planet & The Case for a Creator.
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