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   From: nomail@invalid.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
   twang@the.noodle says...   
   >   
   > Sylvia Else wrote:   
   > > On 10-Apr-23 2:02 am, Skeeter wrote:   
   > > > twang@the.noodle says...   
   > > >> Skeeter wrote:   
   > > >>> twang@the.noodle says...   
   > > >>>> Skeeter wrote:   
   > > >>>>> twang@the.noodle says...   
   > > >>>>>> Skeeter wrote:   
   > > >>>>>>> In article , sylvi   
   @email.invalid says...   
   > > >>>>>>>> On 08-Apr-23 2:52 pm, Michael McLean wrote:   
   > > >>>>>>>>>   
   > > >>>>>>>>> Everything is the consequence of something.  No thing can create   
   itself.   
   > > >>>>>>>>>    It needs a cause.  Thus eternal God or nothing would be here.   
   No thing   
   > > >>>>>>>>> can "be" before it is in order to bring itself into "being."   
   > > >>>>>>>>   
   > > >>>>>>>> So, God can be eternal, but nothing else can, because.....?   
   > > >>>>>>>>   
   > > >>>>>>>> Sylvia.   
   > > >>>>>>>   
   > > >>>>>>> He created it?   
   > > >>>>>>   
   > > >>>>>> Could God create an eternal universe if he wanted to?   
   > > >>>>>   
   > > >>>>> It wouldn't be eternal if it was created.   
   > > >>>>   
   > > >>>> So you mean no, God isn't powerful enough to create an   
   > > >>>> eternal universe.   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> Twist it around as usual.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> You said it, not me.   
   > > >>   
   > > >>>   If it was created it cannot be eternal.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> Of course it can.  Any omnipotent god can create   
   > > >> something that lasts forever.  If he can't, he's not   
   > > >> omnipotent and he needs to go back to god school.   
   > > >   
   > > > If it was created it had a beginning.   
   > >   
   > > You mean God cannot create an eternal universe that had no beginning?   
   >   
   > An eternal universe can have a beginning.  If it lasts   
   > forever, it's eternal.  If it has existed since infinity   
   > ago and ends now, it's still eternal.   
   >   
   > Eternal just means "having infinite duration".   
   >    
   >   
   > > In any case, we already know that "omnipotence" contains a built-in   
   > > contradiction. Can God create something that He cannot destroy? Etc.   
   > >   
   > > Sylvia.   
   >   
   > Or, can God create itself?   
   >   
   > It depends on what kind of god the believer chooses to   
   > invent.   
      
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