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If God can only be good does that mean he lacks freewill?

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
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    In a sense I suppose, but it is not a lack of freewill more so than a great strength of character. Even Jesus was tempted, he resisted but he could have gone the other way.

  • Jim
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    >You aren't understanding this correctly. There is really no such thing as GOOD or BAD, RIGHT or WRONG. These are dualities and God is not a duality. The fact is, these dualities ONLY exist in your mind. They are an illusion of what life appears to be, not what it really is BEING.

    Beingness is what it is called - just BEING. When something is BEING it IS and that is all it IS, nothing else. Beingness and Isness has no duality to it. There is no subjective opinionation. God is an ABSOLUTE, not a RELATIVE.

    This means, that God could be neither good nor bad OR God could be good AND bad - in other words, God is ALL OF IT. Beingness, Isness, is the expression of Allness. And whatever is being is simply just being - not good, not bad, not right, not wrong, just being.

  • 9 years ago

    Your question implies that people who obey the law have no free will or choice, since they don't break the law; and because they have no free will or choice, they are prisoners.

    I mean, seriously! Can't ANY body think logically and rationally any more? You atheists CLAIM to have intelligence, but I just don't see it! Think through your questions before you post them to save yourself some embarrassment!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    One of the things about omnipresence and omni-stuff that makes them impossible is that they require there to be no time - no changes. Nothing happens. Static.

    Nothing is static. Everything changes and is influenced. Nothing is free. There is no freewill.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    God cannot violate his cardinal qualities of love, wisdom, power and justice.

  • 9 years ago

    Dear Ben,

    If by "Good", you mean true to his WORD, then my answer would be:

    HE is true to HIS WORD by choice !

    Blessings !

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    NO cuz He will burn people in hell when the time comes :O hahaha

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Well...yes, by definition, that's what it means.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    no it means that he's imaginary

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