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- From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
- Subject: God not omnipotent since He cain't LIE was Going to Heaven
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- <mjenkins.721874244@cunews> <1992Nov16.004514.9549@cs.yale.edu>
- <mjenkins.721875575@cunews>
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:34:26 UTC
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- In article <mjenkins.721875575@cunews>
- mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- >In <1992Nov16.004514.9549@cs.yale.edu>
- rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- >>that God said it. Besides, what makes you think that God wasn't just
- >>flat out lying?
- >If God was flat-out lying, then we may as well just nuke ourselves
- >right now.
-
- Woah, talk about holding up a secular image of the transcendent.
-
- >Good grief! If God was lying about that, then we obviously can't trust
- >him with anything...specifically his comment about Satan being "the
- >father of lies."
-
- Trust is not the issue, get it? Do you trust Luke 14:26? Learn from dogma,
- but please do not become dogmatic. Teacher says "Follow me and be Free." Do
- you know what that means?
-
- >Come on....God is incapable of lying. It completely goes against his
- >perfect nature.
- >Michael
-
- Ah, that doesn't make sense. I assume you would also say that God is
- incapable of evil? So, Satan is the source of lies and evil and other bad
- things, thus Dualism. Jesus the Lord of Light versus Satan the Lord of Dark.
- My how easy it is to lose sight of monotheism.
-