From: acooper@mac.cc.macalstr.edu (Turin Turambar, ME Department of Utter Misery) Subject: Re: Christian Morality is Organization: Macalester College Lines: 37 In article <1993Apr21.140649.5660@cs.nott.ac.uk>, kax@cs.nott.ac.uk (Kevin Anthoney) writes: > In article <4949@eastman.UUCP> dps@nasa.kodak.com writes: >> >>The fact is God could cause you to believe anything He wants you to. >>But think about it for a minute. Would you rather have someone love >>you because you made them love you, or because they wanted to >>love you. ... > > There's a difference between believing in the existence of an entity, > and loving that entity. God _could_ show me directly that he exists, > and I'd still have a free choice about whether to love him or not. So > why doesn't he? > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kevin Anthoney kax@cs.nott.ac.uk > Don't believe anything you read in .sig files. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Kevin makes a good point here, and when that theists miss all-too-often. That is, the belief in a diety is not necessarily coupled with agreement/love of that diety, so really they have yet another bit of convincing to do just beyond belief. I guess the standard argumet goes something like: well, once you believe in God, you know God is love, and you will choose to love him-- if it wasnt so widely accepted and asserted it'd be laughable... best regards, --Adam ================================================================================ | Adam John Cooper | "Verily, often have I laughed at the weaklings | | (612) 696-7521 | who thought themselves good simply because | | acooper@macalstr.edu | they had no claws." | ================================================================================ | "Understand one another? I fear I am beyond your comprehension." --Gandalf | ================================================================================