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Mephi2K
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| Posted 7/19/2001 8:52 PM (GMT -6) |   | Let's say that you are someone who believes that the emergence of sin was pretty much INEVITABLE, meaning that it was HIGHLY PROBABLE to the point of nigh certainty that at least one person would end up being separated from God as time played out. (Whether you want to posit an eternal punishment of not makes no nevermind to me. Admittedly though, the stakes do become a tad higher positing eternal punishment.)
My question is...Was it worth it? Is God's plan for loving relationships with human beings worth the life of ONE human (or angelic?) being? I'm presupposing the self-sufficiency of God, where God would have been completely satisfied with the sociality going on in the Trinity. Would it have been better for God to have not created at all? I'm just trying to see how utilitarian we will get here. I've placed this here before...from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" page 287
"Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and contentment at last, but that to do that it is absolutely necessary, and indeed quite inevitable, to torture to death only one tiny creature,...would you consent to be the architect under those conditions?"
I see the same type of thought applying. I'm placing the scales like this. If we believe that the emergence of sin was pretty much inevitable, then we have to say that the cost of ALL happiness, bliss and joy that God and human beings may get from this risky move of love and reciprocity is AT LEAST the punishment (torment, pitible annihilation?) of one human being. Seeing as how creation itself is not NECESSARY to God, I find it hard to ultimately say that this is a case of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one" There needn't have been any "needs of the many" at all! God would have been perfectly ok without the world. Is God's free gracious creation of free beings WORTH the loss of ONE sentient being? Justify your reasoning please.
Doc has stated that, ON THE WHOLE, the risk was worth it. We'll see...
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