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- From: sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: A different view of God
- Message-ID: <sandvik-230193162111@17.201.32.75>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 00:24:15 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.031133.27550@rp.CSIRO.AU>
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- In article <1993Jan20.031133.27550@rp.CSIRO.AU>, ahaig@rp.CSIRO.AU (Albert
- Haig) wrote:
- > Firstly, I hold that God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent,
- > perfectly free and perfectly good. He is the cause of the
- > universe. By omnipotent, I mean that he can do anything which
- > it is logically possible to do. I take it as a consequence of
- > 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
- > has reasons for said beliefs. Omnipresent is perhaps self-explanatory.
- > He is perfectly free in that there he is not constrained or influenced
- > in His actions by any factors other than His will alone - for example,
- > emotions, desires and so on play no role in His decisions. I believe
- > that moral statements have truth values (there is an objective right
- > and wrong) and since God is all-knowing, he knows all moral
- > requirements. Since He is perfectly free, moral imperatives are
- > the only thing that can sway his actions - He is therefore
- > perfectly good.
-
- I don't have any problems in justification of belief in such constructs,
- one might state that anything is possible, and any kind of a God could
- be available, if not directly then somehow as part of the idea-world
- (Popper's world 3).
-
- However, the next step is the critical one, does this construct
- manifest itself in the current universe? And if, how?
-
- Kent
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