Is this a good answer for Richard Dawkins question?

Mar 10, 2018 at 12:47pm

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Post by goz on Mar 10, 2018 at 12:47pm







You said no.



Mar 10, 2018 at 6:47am CoolJGS☺ said:



Mar 10, 2018 at 5:44am Terrapin Station said:

What it has to do with is the answer that was presented in the initial post. In that answer, it was suggested that the world is a particular way as if it HAS to be that way. It's worth asking, in light of the question that was asked, if the world is that way because God chose for it to be that way, or if God had no choice and had to follow along with it just as we do. And for some of us, it's interesting to wonder this: if God had no choice in the world being that way, either, then just what determined that it has to be that way?



This is why discussions with you ultimately become pointless.



You insist on a rule and can't even contemplate deviating from it as if the flawed question is back by ultimate truth.



You are maintaining that the question mandates only one of two responses when there is nothing in the subject material that indicates the choice is so simple.



Rather than address that head on, you pretend that i don't understand the question that I understood from the very beginning to advance a question that isn't tied to a real answer but rather only to answers you have already developed in your head but don;t feel like sharing.



Don't be so defensive and then dismissive. IMHO Terrapin Station has done a creditable job of asking you, in effect, about God's omnipotence. You also, in effect, answered no, God is not omnipotent because

r if God had no choice and had to follow along with it just as we do.











ie when asked A simple question is this: can God's standards be whatever God wants them to be?



You answered. No.



Further this is akin to asking 'If God made everything, even if they were not to his own preferred standards...



WHO made God and those alternate standards.



This is just a standard theological question, to which neither you nor anyone else seems to have an adequate reply and you have nicely fallen into Terrapin Station and others' trap.





If God's standards are not what God ALWAYS wants, then whose standards are they?



You also talk about ' a flawed question as if it has an ultimate truth'.



If there is an ultimate truth and it is the omniscience of God, why are you denying it?

Theophobiacs can't even understand what omniscience means