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   From: vomit-inducing.screamer-and-creamer@alt.games.thin-lady-of-the-streets   
      
   Vincent Maycock wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:07:21 -0500, duke wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:52:21 -0400, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:15:16 -0500, duke wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:12:10 -0400, Vincent Maycock    
   wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In standard Christian theology, God cares about the lost but has other   
   >>>>> things to contend with that prevent him from helping them.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Haahaahaa. Vince, that's the most stupid comment I've ever had the   
   misfortune   
   >>>> to witness.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, Christians do it all the time; "God had to do this because ..." or   
   >>> "the only we way could truly have free will is if God ..." etc., etc.   
   >>   
   >> And your massive error suggests God is too busy. Haahaahaa.   
   >   
   > The things that get in the way did not include "things that take up   
   > his time," idiot.   
   >   
   >>>>> So if we assume he can, then the resolution to the conundrum would be   
   >>>>> that God simultaneously can and can't lift the rock; in this idea, he   
   >>>>> exists in a superposition of states like those found in quantum   
   >>>>> mechanics.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why should the creator of the universe be unable to lift the heaviest   
   rock?   
   >>> No, it's not "the heaviest rock."   
   >>   
   >>> The conundrum goes: "Can God make a rock so big he can't lift it?"   
   >>> If he succeeds at making the rock, then "being able to lift it" is   
   >>> something he can't do, which means he's not omnipotent.   
   >>   
   >> The conundrum makes the wild assumption of error that "God can't lift it".   
   >   
   > No, it's not an assumption; it's part of a conundrum that goes "either   
   > way, you lose."   
      
   It's an assumption, founded on the notion of human logic. Please present   
   your evidence for this "God" being bound by human logic.   
      
   What's that? You can't? Oh, well. Back to the drawing board for you.   
      
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