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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Subject: Re: A different view of God
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.090244.22561@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:02:44 GMT
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- In <1993Jan20.095008.17374@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
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- >In <1jisf5INNff2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips) writes:
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- >>In a previous article, ahaig@rp.CSIRO.AU (Albert Haig) says:
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- >[...stuff deleted...]
- >>> this definition that only one such being could exist. Who would
- >>> over-rule who in case of a disagreement? By omniscient I mean that
- >>> He knows everything which it is logically possible to know i.e. He
- >>> believes all true propositions and disbelieves all false ones, and
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- >> Does he know how to do the `logically immpossible'.....guess not
- >> since he cannot do it.
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- >Regarding the "logically impossible"....
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- >Frithjof Schuon, in his metaphysics, defines God essentially as the "All
- >Possible".
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- Sorry... "All Possible" here should, I think, be "All Possibility."
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- >Within this definition he identifies "evil" as the
- >"Possibility of the Impossible." So this is one way one person has
- >approached the issue of logical impossibility and the problem of evil
- >simultaneously.
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- >This is contained in Frithjof Schuon's book "Survey of Metaphysics and
- >Esotericism" (1986, World Wisdom Books), near the beginning.
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- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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