Tuesday, August 28, 2018

What Would An Omni God Have Done?

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 humanity with 
free will and the ability to sin--knowing the horrific  
outcome Mt 7:13-14when 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 ETERNALunimaginable 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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