----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:07 PM Subject: Re: The Mercies of The Vatican
> At 04:03 PM Thursday 8/19/04, Dan Minette wrote: > > > >I realize that I don't have an explanation for why pain and suffering is > >required for the existence of free will. > > > > Mainly because if genuine free will is possible, it is possible for us to > exercise our free will to make wrong choices as well as right choices, and > the natural consequences of those wrong choices (ours or those of others > around us whose choices affect us) involve pain and suffering. True, but that begs the question of why we couldn't have free will to choose between various things that are good for us. I agree that things are made that way, but why must it be made that way? My guess is that there is such a thing as Divine Necessity. All Powerful is a flawed concept, the limitations of which are shown by the question "could God make a rock so big that he himself could not roll it?" Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
