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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Going to Heaven
- Message-ID: <11554@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:03:53 GMT
- References: <ksand-121192182635@wintermute.apple.com> <11516@hogg.ed.ac.uk> <mjenkins.721874244@cunews> <1992Nov16.004514.9549@cs.yale.edu> <mjenkins.721875575@cunews>
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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:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Who is "we"? If all Christians (since it is their god that is being
- discussed) commit suicide (which they actually are not supposed to do)
- right now, we, the rest of the inhabitants of the planet (atheists,
- agnostics and adherents of other religions), will ... er ... do
- nothing in particular. Le soleil brillera toujours. I mean it will
- be very regrettable, and all that. Just do it quietly, folks, okay?
-
- >Good grief! If God was lying about that, then we obviously can't trust
- >him with anything
-
- Good point. High time for it to be raised. Let's elaborate on this.
- Just don't give up too quickly.
-
- >...specifically his comment about Satan being "the father of lies."
-
- Well, Satan may still be the father of lies. Doesn't mean that no one
- else may lie just because of that.
-
- >Come on....God is incapable of lying.
-
- I thought he was omnipotent.
-
- >It completely goes against his perfect nature.
-
- Why's that? Why does a perfect nature imply lack of this particular skill?
-
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- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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