How could a omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent
God who has no needs, Acts 17:24-25 [thus there was
no need that hell even exist] create a humanity with
free will and the ability to sin--knowing the horrific
outcome Mt 7:13-14, when he could have created this
humanity, like him, with free will and the inability to sin?
Thus in truly loving fashion, preventing billions of humans
from suffering ETERNAL, unimaginable agony in hell-and
the Bible actually teaches that he doesn't want anyone
to go to hell 2 Peter 3:9! So there is no reason he couldn't
and wouldn't have accomplished this--IF this alleged god
of the Bible has all of these omni characteristics the Bible
writers claim that he has.
From the Errancy Discussion list, April 17, 1998:
God who has no needs, Acts 17:24-25 [thus there was
no need that hell even exist] create a humanity with
free will and the ability to sin--knowing the horrific
outcome Mt 7:13-14, when he could have created this
humanity, like him, with free will and the inability to sin?
Thus in truly loving fashion, preventing billions of humans
from suffering ETERNAL, unimaginable agony in hell-and
the Bible actually teaches that he doesn't want anyone
to go to hell 2 Peter 3:9! So there is no reason he couldn't
and wouldn't have accomplished this--IF this alleged god
of the Bible has all of these omni characteristics the Bible
writers claim that he has.
From the Errancy Discussion list, April 17, 1998:
Terry
I would like to express my opinion on this since this
is a debate. The bible says at James 1:13,14 Let no
one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God."
for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when
he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Till
You too seem to be missing the point, Terry. If God's
nature is such that he cannot be tempted to do evil,
then this would prove that it is possible for entities to
exist whose nature is such that they cannot do evil.
That being so, why didn't God create humans with
such a nature? If God can have this kind of nature
and still be such that he can make choices without
ever choosing to do evil, then he, being omniscient,
should have known that he could create humans with
this same kind of nature. Also being omnipotent, he
would have had the power to create such a nature in
humans.
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