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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Greg or e who wrote (7839)	9/4/2001 10:11:52 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 28931

I don't quite share your conclusion that if all things are foreordained, then human freedom is therefore eliminated. I don't know if concern is the right word. If things are foreordained then we are God's puppets, kind of like a higher than tech game to amuse him for eternity. We are not as we appear to be, alive and self aware. If we have complete control but God doctors things around the edges so that our free will doesn't mess up his plan... well in such a case the amount of correction that God would have to apply will increase with time as we bounce around the limits of entropy. Even omniscience won't allow a superior being to be in control unless they apply a correction twice the magnitude of the deviation and this will produce a new deviation. The only escape for God is to have complete control, and then we have no free will, just little invisible puppet strings. TP

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