At 11:19 AM 09/05/2001 -0400, James Stark wrote:
>Our evidence of God's self-limitation is not confined to scripture.
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>Does not God's gift of freedom imply that God chose to limit God's freedom?
What gift of freedom?
I would certainly support George Murphy's earlier comment today
discouraging the tendency to oppose human freedom to divine freedom
(although I'd be more than a "bit" wary of the idea). If human beings
possess significant freedom (and I'm not convinced that they do), it does
not follow that this would entail any particular consequence for divine
freedom, as George pointed out.
I'll say it right out loud: why are some folks so interested in cutting God
down to a managable size? Why is there such an unwavering commitment to
the primacy of a notion of will, both divine and human, and to the further
notion of a "free" will, both divine and human, even if that commitment
encourages an abandonment of the traditional and orthodox doctrine of God?
I'd truly like to understand.
Tom Pearson
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Thomas D. Pearson
Department of History & Philosophy
The University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, Texas
e-mail: pearson@panam1.panam.edu
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