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To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (153)	9/13/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

god-like comprehension No, it's much too easy to wave your hands and say we can never understand. The humans collectively know more and more all the time about how our universe functions. To ask a god to know about a future that has not happened is the same as asking it to create a stone too heavy for that god to lift. It's a contradiction. TP

To: Null Dog Ago who wrote (153)	9/14/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

My beef with predestination is such: The tenants of Christianity teach God is omniscent And, God is omnipotent And, God is good And, God cares about you And, there a heaven and hell. But, you are born to commit good or evil acts that will send you to heaven or hell, and God knows this. God has the power to affect your life in such a way, that he can bring you into his fold, or send you screaming into the pit. But, God does not exercise this power to help you. To me, this implies that one or more of the Christian assumption are false. A good and caring God would not allow you to commit acts that would damn you or harm others. Instead of blindly believing "God works in mysterious ways", I've reconciled this quandry by not taking the last 3 assumptions, (good, caring and heaven). How does anybody else reconcile this logical problem?