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Gospel St.John 19:10-11; [the temporal order]
Topic Started: Tuesday, 11. September 2012, 16:53 (270 Views)
PJD

I would say Penfold that He has the power, but chooses not to do so.

PJD
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OsullivanB

I think that this is the point at which our use of language for God breaks down. To say "God has power" is helpful to us to understand certain aspects of the relationship between God and His creation. However, I think it is misleading to conceive of God's power as resembling anything we we can understand by the term. I would, like PJD, say that God has the power but has always chosen, and can be relied upon always to choose, not to exercise it. But I think that ascribing "choice" and "decision" to God is also to apply human terms to something beyond our understanding and beyond language.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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PJD

"It is a very short, very precise, instruction PJD. How could one interpret it differently?

Gerry"


You are correct Gerry; I used the wrong word - instead of interpreted, should have referred to digressed therefrom.

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Rose of York
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Penfold
Saturday, 15. September 2012, 21:08
Does God have the Power to force us to act against our own free will?
As God is all powerful I presume he has, but chooses not to. He made us to be his children, not robots. If we had no free will we would not be in His image and likeness.
Keep the Faith!

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PJD

If we had no free will we would not be in His image and likeness.

Yes that is a very good fundamental point in my opinion Rose!

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