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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ela_eluwa120" data-source="post: 12318507" 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 your Omniscience, 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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