What's So Great About Ushas?

brunians at brunians.org · 21 Jul 2008, 12:42 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:42:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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What is your problem?

Everything that happens is the will of God.

Everything that actually happens.

This is a necessary concomitant of God being both omnipotent and omniscient.

It does not mean I do not have free will.

It means that any actions that I (or anyone else) actually accomplish -
note well - are also the will of God.

Anything that I (or anyone else) attempt to do but does not actually get
done is not.

Thus if a foolish person decides that it is a good idea to go rob me, and
for whatever reason is able to do so, then him robbing me would be the
will of God. If, on the other hand, I shot him and fed him to the pigs or
whatever, then it would be the will of God that he be dead and eaten by
the pigs.

I really don't understand your problem with this, but it is perhaps not
necessary that I understand. I am certainly becoming tired of arguing it
with you, and will probably give up here soon if not now.

.

> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> Mine works.
>
> Except for reducing your credibility to a level below the cosmic
> microwave background, you mean?  When you say you believe X is always
> true, then X might be true, and then that you will oppose X with deadly
> force in the space of a couple messages, I can't agree that "works"
> means what you think it means, I have to find "mine" suspect as well,
> and frankly I'm not entirely comfortable with your use of punctuation
> either.
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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