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Sure I do, paradox is a statement that seems to be contradictory but still may be true.



But they are all mighty. They don't have to follow the same rules that we have to. The being can change and alter the rules however he or she pleases whenever they please.




YHVH knows everything, you don't have to be something to know about it though.




I don't really want to get into the Satan vs. Lucifer fight in the name for the devil. I will say that it seems to me that Satan would make more sense as it orginally means advisary in Hebrew and is traditionally used in Abrahamic faiths as the devil's name. While Lucifer means ligher bearer or morning star and seems to be a bit of a controversy over how appropriate it is to call Lucifer the Christian devil as he initially was more closelt aligne with a Promethus like myth.


Angels and demons do generally represent one's ability to use free will and how choice and not creation is what makes a monster sure.

And true God isn't the name, though last I checked YHWH and YHVH were both appropriate abbrievations and most people also accept Yeshua bin Yosef or just Yeshua.

Go for it.

I can't believe you think that post is brutal or even remotely near it though.

I get the wording, but I think you've forgotten the great thing about being ominpotent. All powerful means you make the rules and circumstances.

I know that you don't agree with my response to the god and big rock problem, so let me throw out the technical definition of omipotent. Definition number two at www.m-w.com says "having virtually unlimited authority or influence". Under that defintion, YHVH is still omnipotent. Besides why would you want to make something so big you couldn't move it?

And Resurrection, I'd agree that the nature of evil and specific wording around that would be a greater base to attack Christianity. Dogma, mistranslation, and reasoning for including or discluding parts of the bible into offical cannon is also worth talking about. I personally am a big fan of Hume's work specifically in the problem of evil.

Like people have already said, a life of equal value to another does not mean that the consequences of the actions we make in our lives after death are going to be the same, and it doesn't mean that the actions we make in our lives are the same. So if all lives were of equal value, what would that imply? I would think it would imply mainly that people deserve to be treated the same that you would treat yourself, criminals included. This being my opinion. And also, if one was to disagree with murder, this can also imply that a life is of equal value to another, however this does not mean that actions in one's life are equal to another's.

We should feel sorry for people with misfortunes, people who don't know any better icluding people who have killed others.

People who kill others don't know any better, otherwise they wouldn't be killing people in the first place, that is, if you believe murder is wrong, which I said in my post that this is my opinion.

That quote you gave me is completely different to whay I'm saying, so don't put words into what I'm saying, you're creating chaos where there is none.

I don't know where it states it in the bible, I can't usually quote scriputure line for line. It is possible that the bible doesn't claim God is omnipotent, but I'm pretty sure someone else would have caught that slip up by now. I'd imagine that when we talk about creation it might get into God as the all knowing all powerful kind of guy.

Your question assumes that there is a possibility of there being a greater object than God himself, if this is not so then the scenario itself is nothing more than a trick question

God created Lucifer but didnt Lucifer choose to be evil.

God created people, but people choose to be evil.

anyway, not that it matters, because there's a possibility that he doesnt even exist.