The Will Of God

David Stockhoff · 08 Dec 2008, 15:26 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:26:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Will Of God
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On the other hand, if every possible event is God's will, then the 
concept of God's will becomes meaningless. It will only matter, after 
accepting a fully populated tree, whether something is possible, i.e., 
if there is a branch for it. ------------------------------ Message: 11 
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:16:28 -0700 From: Dave Tallman 
<davetallman at msn.com> Subject: Re: (urth) The Will Of God To: 
urth at lists.urth.net Message-ID: <493D101C.9040404 at gmail.com> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Brunians wrote:

>>>>> > >>>>/ I solve that problem by assuming that all possible timelines exist.
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> > /
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>>>> > >>>/ Separate God in each, or One for all and all under One?
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> > /
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>>> > >>/ The latter, of course.
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> > /
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>> > >/ Is the tree of alternatives fully populated?
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> > /
> > I am not sure that I understand you.
> >   
>   
It seems a bit contradictory to the concept of "the will of God" that 
God would allow timelines in which every possible thing happens. It 
would follow from what you said before that every possible thing is the 
will of God.

Have you read Niven's "All the Myriad Ways"? It takes the multiple 
worlds concept to just such a depressing moral conclusion. People who 
are contemplating murder, rape, or suicide ask themselves -- "Why not? 
It's going to happen somewhere."

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