01 Apr '05 15:24>
Originally posted by ColettiI guess I'm treading on your territory here, but does it say specifically that god was limited to only those two options? Or is that merely your inference? Is it not the case that you are only presented with god's final solution (the blood sacrifice) and that whatever other options he may have had at his disposal are simply not known?
God's revealed knowledge to man, his verbal and plenary revelation, a.k.a. the Bible.
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Your turn.
If he was limited to only two options then that would seriously impinge upon his purported omnipotence. It is my contention that the concept of original sin is incompatible with a god of the three "O"s.
1. If god is omnipotent then he should have been able to come up with many other far more elegant solutions to the problem.
2. If god is omniscient then the problem should never have arisen in the first place, unless that's what god actually wanted all along.
3. If god is omnibenevolent then he would have preferred a solution that would have acheived its goal with far less suffering.
As you may have deduced by now, this whole thing is merely a variation on the argument from evil, currently being argued by Bbarr in another thread.