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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ela_eluwa120" data-source="post: 12354586" data-attributes="member: 193664">GOD: I know, that sounds sort  of blasphemous, doesn’t it? It almost involves a logical paradox! On the  one hand, as you have been taught, it is morally wrong for any sentient  being to claim that I am capable of making mistakes. On the other hand,  I have the right to do anything. But I am also a sentient being. So the  question is, Do I do or do I not have the right to claim that I am  capable of making mistakes?MORTAL: That is a bad joke! One of your premises is simply false. I have  not been taught that it is wrong for any sentient being to doubt yourOmniscience, but only for a mortal to doubt it. But since you are not mortal, then you are obviously free from this injunction.GOD: Good, so you realize this on a rational level. Nevertheless, you  did appear shocked when I said “I am always glad to learn from my  mistakes.”MORTAL: Of course I was shocked. I was shocked not by your  self-blasphemous (as you jokingly called it), not by the fact that you  had no right to say it, but just by the fact that you did say it, since I  have been taught that as a matter of fact you don’t make mistakes. So I  was amazed that you claimed that it is possible for you to make  mistakes.GOD: I have not claimed that it is possible. All I am saying is that if I  made mistakes, I will be happy to learn from them. But this says  nothing about whether the if has or ever can be realized.MORTAL: Let’s please stop quibbling about this point. Do you or do you not admit it was a mistake to haven given me free will?GOD: Well now, this is precisely what I propose we should investigate.  Let me review your present predicament. You don’t want to have free will  because with free will you can sin, and you don’t want to sin. (Though I  still find this puzzling; in a way you must want to sin, or you  wouldn’t. But let this pass for now.) On the other hand, if you agreed  to give up free will, then you would now be responsible for the acts of  the future. Ergo, I should never have given you free will in the first  place.MORTAL: Exactly!GOD: I understand exactly how you feel. Many  mortals -- even some theologians – have complained that I have been  unfair in that it was I, not they, who decided that they should have  free will and since then I hold them responsible for their actions. In  other words, they feel that they are expected to live up to a contract  with me which they never agreed to in the first place.</blockquote>

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