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Originally Posted by Bladesman87
I'm trying to remember a response to William Lane Craig that went on the lines of, if God exists then none of our choices can ever deviate the world from God's plan and therefore ultimately on God's plan/choices can ever matter. I'll have to try and find it but the idea was that God results in a kind of nihilism.
I would agree with him on that. I think that if god exists and has the characteristics assigned to him of being omnipotent, omniscient, and perfect, and that he created everything, then it's not possible that something can happen unless God wanted it to.
I.e. the universe is deterministic.
That creates a lot of difficult questions, like why some people are opposed to what other people do, but the easiest way to resolve that is that god either does not meet those criteria, or that he's actually a bit of a wanker.
It also raises the issue of whether or not god could have designed the universe any other way than he did, and I don't he could have done, in other words, even God doesn't have free will.
Last edited by Mightyboosh; 07-16-2021 at 08:05 AM.