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Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed
Posted by lgsinmyheart on 2011-October-15 06:36:06 EDT, Saturday
In reply to Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed posted by Markaba on 2011-October-15 04:28:19 EDT, Saturday
If it requires two different universes, then God's power is limited. If you wish, you can rephrase the question: "Can God create a rock in this universe that he cannot lift in this universe?"
I would argue (and I do believe) that everything possible is, was, or will be real. That is the beauty (and the doom) of multiverse proposals.
But to the point - if it requires more than one universe, God's power is limited? How so? It would actually be more power: to create several universes instead of "just" one. In our universe, humans don't show, say, Superman's superpowers. Can God create a human with such superpowers? But if God did, would Superman still qualify as human? God creates rules even God doesn't break - same as a software programmer creates rules that even they cannot break within the code, even though they can, potentially, rewrite the code in another way that allows for more things. I don't see God as any different from this. And I frankly see portraying God as a permanent Deus ex machina as both anthropocentric and small-minded. God is beyond the worries of what is possible and isn't in this universe or any other - and has to be, unless you conceive of God as a bureaucrat who permanently has to micro-manage every issue under the possible authority of the charge. Granted, that's how many people (most?) conceive of God. But it is not only unneeded - it's almost blasphemous.
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- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - Markaba on 2011-October-15 07:14:13 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 6)
- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - lgsinmyheart on 2011-October-15 08:37:51 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 5)
- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - Markaba on 2011-October-15 19:20:42 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 1)
- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - lgsinmyheart on 2011-October-16 01:36:59 EDT, Sunday - (1 / 0 / 0)
- logical, not literal - Baldur on 2011-October-15 10:01:43 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 2)
- Not me - Markaba on 2011-October-15 19:00:19 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 1)
- Re: Not me - Baldur on 2011-October-16 23:45:20 EDT, Sunday - (1 / 0 / 0)
- Not me - Markaba on 2011-October-15 19:00:19 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 1)
- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - Markaba on 2011-October-15 19:20:42 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 1)
- Re: i need urgent help : i'm demonically possessed - lgsinmyheart on 2011-October-15 08:37:51 EDT, Saturday - (1 / 0 / 5)