"On the scale from 1 to 10, how close have I gotten to the absolute truth in my ponderings, as far as is humanly possible?" (Then I would know if I should just drop it or keep at it. No ready answers for me, thanks. :) )
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Alright now on to deeper simple religion- pure religion and undefiled before god is what?- Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither ...
I completely agree with you here. as for temptation, i believe on the other hand that God did not tempt job at all. who tempts man is satan. if you remember the story of Job, God tells satan that satan can go ahead and try to tempt Job but He knows that Job wi...
I would agree that the Creator of all things cannot be tempted by his creations or anything else. But it is clear that God may tempt man. God is not bound by anyone or anything. If God were to choose to tempt, say, Jobe for example, He certainly could an...
I think even if you are faithful, you must believe that there is free will to choose faith (or as Isaac Singer once said "We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.") For the faithful, God is anything but superfluous. But even the faithful must ad...
How can one prove beleif in superfluity? Is God inessential? The obvious answer is if you beleive in God you cannot negate his very essential nature as it relates to the running of the multiverse. i.e.-no god no universe. But if you question his existence then you could q...