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Originally Posted by Coren  There's nothing in the Bible that claims that God is above his own word. Thus there's nothing to reconcile. Basicly I'm stating that those 3 points simply fail to give the whole picture. (Nor am I really denying 1...there's just more to it than that.). |
Wait, so as I understand you, you are saying that God can set up rules for himself and nothing in the bible says God can break those rules he set, it might even promise that God will not break his word (I honestly dont know). In light of this the notion of God being all powerful can include God not being able to do certain things because of rules he set. Thats how you handle the create a rock so big he cant lift it question.
But granting that sort of omnipitence still doesnt jive with 3. If God is all good , and God is all knowing (which was left out of the original 3 but should be up there) then he A) knows how any rules he set will turn out through all time and B) would not set rules that allowed for amount of evil we see in the world.
Even if God can make rules that he can not break with out detracting from his omnipitence it still does not follow that an all good, all knowing good could make rules that allowed for evil.
Thats why free will is an attractive rebuttal. If you argue one of God's ground rules was we had to have free will then evil becomes an agent of man outside of God's hands.
Would you say God can make 2+2=5 or no?