I took it mean that you thought there was a logical contradiction in God's character Evangelical Christianity is riddled with logical contradictions, you get into all sorts of inescapable conundrums by having an all powerful all knowing God who has ended up with a totally screwed up universe, were God really all powerful and all knowing then this would not have occured (see Wikipedia: The problem of evil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil)).
Another one that came up on the Christianity Explored course was that logically God cannot be totally loving (http://www.livejournal.com/users/robhu/105882.html#isgodtotallyloving) (or perfectly loving, or 'as loving as he could be') if either some are called or some are chosen irresistably. Of course you could say that either everyone has the choice available to them, or that everyone goes to heaven - neither of these match up with what we see around us, or that everyone goes to heaven - but I don't think there are many evangelicals who would say that.
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Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION
Date: 2005-02-06 03:59 pm (UTC)Evangelical Christianity is riddled with logical contradictions, you get into all sorts of inescapable conundrums by having an all powerful all knowing God who has ended up with a totally screwed up universe, were God really all powerful and all knowing then this would not have occured (see Wikipedia: The problem of evil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil)).
Another one that came up on the Christianity Explored course was that logically God cannot be totally loving (http://www.livejournal.com/users/robhu/105882.html#isgodtotallyloving) (or perfectly loving, or 'as loving as he could be') if either some are called or some are chosen irresistably. Of course you could say that either everyone has the choice available to them, or that everyone goes to heaven - neither of these match up with what we see around us, or that everyone goes to heaven - but I don't think there are many evangelicals who would say that.