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Theli · 03-25-2003, 03:05 PM

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An omnipotent God could be capable of committing evil, as defined by the separate scale, but chooses not to.

Isn't unwillingness based on nature, inability?
I would argue that if god is good then he cannot commit evil, not handicaped by physical or magic restraints but emotional. Can you explain how god could commit evil and still remain good?

happyboy · 03-25-2003, 03:17 PM

sweet lord santa, we're delving into kaballah, eh?

happyboy, once more face-to-face with occult garbage

Theli · 03-25-2003, 04:02 PM

Happyboy not happy?

hinduwoman · 03-25-2003, 05:22 PM

Surely good and evil are subjective standards, meaningful only within the human intellectual framework. Nature by herself is neither good nor evil. So if there is a God, then he need not be good as humans understand the term.

"I am become the destroyer of worlds" --- Gita

happyboy · 03-25-2003, 05:28 PM

damn right i'm not happy. the occult offends me, even moreso than the brain defective practice called "religion."

happyboy

Fiach · 03-25-2003, 05:50 PM

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Originally posted by Theli
Isn't unwillingness based on nature, inability?
I would argue that if god is good then he cannot commit evil, not handicaped by physical or magic restraints but emotional. Can you explain how god could commit evil and still remain good?

I can't. God does evil acts throughout the Old Testament. It is not just by Human standards of evil, but he also supposedly murdered billions of innocent animals in Noah's Flood. The argument about morality being subjective is getting rather barmy. It is objective to humans by Darwinian principles of adaptation and survival. God's mythical actions are certainly evil to each and every animal that he killed in the mythical flood.

We must not lose sight of the fact that God doesn't exist until proven so. All of this speculation is so much mental masturbation.

Fiach

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happyboy Regular Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: on the border between here and there, WV Posts: 373	sweet lord santa, we're delving into kaballah, eh? happyboy, once more face-to-face with occult garbage

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Theli Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 2,567	Happyboy not happy?

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hinduwoman Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: India Posts: 6,977	Surely good and evil are subjective standards, meaningful only within the human intellectual framework. Nature by herself is neither good nor evil. So if there is a God, then he need not be good as humans understand the term. "I am become the destroyer of worlds" --- Gita

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happyboy Regular Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: on the border between here and there, WV Posts: 373	damn right i'm not happy. the occult offends me, even moreso than the brain defective practice called "religion." happyboy

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