Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wu1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!rocky2!cubsvax!wu1!rf From: rf@wu1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: The responsibility of deities and free will Message-ID: <257@wu1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 16:06:19 EST Article-I.D.: wu1.257 Posted: Wed Mar 7 16:06:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 07:09:12 EST Organization: Western Union Telegraph, Mahwah, NJ Lines: 13 If humans in fact have free will (a subject I'll not debate) then no deity can be responsible for human actions. Only a deity which cared nothing for men would create beings with a sense of sin and no free will (I understand that some Christians have actually preached this as truth). On the other hand, were you a deity who created beings with free will, and you found these beings doing foolish, malicious, dangerous things with your gift wouldn't you be just a tad annoyed? Maybe annoyed enough to let the Four Horsemen ride? Randolph Fritz {philabs, allegra!sunrise}!wu1!rf