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To: Eric Maggard who wrote (18072)	3/11/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It was not intended as a serious argument. :-) About salt/fresh from the same spring - I'm no authority on any of this - but don't angels predate the Creation? So God never had to go through the trouble of creating Satan. God&Satan got in a flame war, then Jill revoked Satan's posting privileges! :-D

To: Eric Maggard who wrote (18072)	3/11/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 108807

"That should have been salt-water and fresh from the same source. That would be something to see if it could. Do you know of one?" If God is all powerful, couldn't he produce it? Isn't paradox the essence of divinity?

To: Eric Maggard who wrote (18072)	3/11/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Eric: Your salt/fresh water is a poor analogy because within the core of the christian belief there is still rampant contradictions -- among them that ultimate good beget ultimate evil. There is NO WAY around that with the weak "free will" argument. Even christian scholars I have talked with admit this (and many other points) when pressed to the wall. They fall back on the "you must accept it on faith" argument -- which is no argument at all. Which is my point. Knowledge is not built by faith, but on experimentation, trial and error, and testing, always testing with a skeptical (yet open) eye. Father Terrence FT