Roger, you may be correct, yet the world is still a place red in truth and claw. Don't be surprised, if your theodicy, which works well for you, doesn't work so good for all. It's like a medicine that only is 30% effective. You still want to keep it around, but you must, as a physician, be aware of the limitation. On Free Will, we have the free will to like something or hate something. But that something still pushes on anyway. The tsunami still flows despite your prayers. So free will, is really just free opinion.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> To: - mindbr...@yahoogroups.com <mindbr...@yahoogroups.com>; everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 4:19 am Subject: A God-limited God - My Theodicy A God-limited God - My Theodicy A theodicy is a justification of God's ways to man. his is my theodicy, based on the Bible and eason. Comments appreciated. Most of the so-called "contradictions" in the Bible, uch as a loving God lashing out at sinners, ractically committing genocide, or a loving God llowing tsunamis to happen, or a loving God allowing vil and suffering in this world, can be attributed o a misunderstanding of God's true nature. For reason, as well as the Bible, indicate that God has illingly limited his possible actions in this world o accord with his own pre-existing righteousness as well as he pre-existing truths of necessary reason. Thus that Christ had to die on the cross, instead of having the ins of mankind simply forgiven by God, can be justified y God's righteousness. That is, even God must obey is own justice. Similarly, God must obey the physics of his creation. hysical disasters happen. God can't make 2+2 =5. od lets the rain fall on the just as well as the unjust. And God has given man free will, so that men can o evil as well as good. Although God has unlimited power in the kingdom of Heaven, n this imperfect, contingent world he has had to limit his owers of action. Roger Clough -- ou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List" group. o post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. o unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. or more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
