Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wanginst.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!mckeeman From: mckeeman@wanginst.UUCP (William McKeeman) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Re: QUESTIONS FROM A FRIEND Message-ID: <328@wanginst.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 16:23:47 EST Article-I.D.: wanginst.328 Posted: Thu Mar 7 16:23:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:33:59 EST References:<347@oakhill.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.religion:5902 net.religion.christian:383 > In article <109@gymble.UUCP> bennet@gymble.UUCP (Tom Bennet) writes: > > What did God do wrong? Was it a bad decision on His/Her part? Just how > intelligent is a God that can create the universe but not oversee its > perfect functioning? If you insist that God wanted to create the universe > in a non-perfect manner doesn't this show an imperfection? Couldn't God > as smart as He/She is figure out a way of obtaining the same result with > a perfect universe? It appears that God loses either way. Either God > was incapable of creating a perfect universe or was incapable of figuring > out how to do so to achieve His/Her/its ends. > > Comments welcomed. > > Dave Trissel {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax,gatech}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet Your problem, I think, is accepting that your view of a perfect universe might be different from God's view. There are just lots of speculations on how something that does not suit you might please God. Anger is not a sign of lack of power, as you imply. It might, for example, just be there to get your attention. It surely worked on Job. At best we seek through a glass, darkly. I have trouble with World War II, for instance. Yet I have faith that, in the end, God knows best. /s/ Bill McKeeman ~decvax!wanginst!mckeeman