Because man is
a free creature there are no limits to the purity of brotherhood he may reach; but because of man's freedom his brotherhood is never safe from corruption on each new level of achievement.
Indeed, for any significantly
free creature there is a possible world in which that creature is significantly free but always does what is right.
Not exact matches
If you feel so strongly that
there is a
creature that you call your god, feel
free to present a compelling argument.
Anyway,
there's something truly
free there, something that isn't the
creature of an unhappy childhood or a frustrated hunger — it's spirit, nous, Geist — something that can convert the countervailing tempests of physiological urges into the elations of reason set
free.
There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely
free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the freedom of
creatures created to be the fellows of his eternal Son.
I agree but add: God had no alternative to willing that
there be some
free creatures, first because (pace Alston) the idea of not creating at all could occur (if I may say so) only to a confused
creature, second because, as Peirce, Bergson, and Whitehead have seen, by a «
creature» we can consistently mean only a lesser form of the freedom or creativity which in eminent form is deity.
i am sorry J.W but i don't believe
there is a god of any kind... if
there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment of its creation by its creation... the argument of
free will is an old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a
creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority of people... believer or not!
But
there is certainly nothing inherent in the standard
free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary purpose for creating
free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).
Thus we now recognize not only that we have the power in principle to transform these structures so that they more nearly allow for the realization of all relevant interests but also that it is in the deeper interest of all
creatures that
there be a social and cultural order that
frees each of them to realize its interests as fully as possible in solidarity with all the others.
In addition, if
there is
FREE WILL, then his beloved creatures can do whatever they please, and God can't intervene, or else he is interfering with free w
FREE WILL, then his beloved
creatures can do whatever they please, and God can't intervene, or else he is interfering with
free w
free will.
But theologically we may still find the instinct of the New Testament synthesis significant, that in God himself
there is a fullness and perfection that is unchanging and outside space and time, and that it is this which makes God the proper telos for a creation in which the mystery of that fullness is unpacked only through the ages of the evolutionary process, which passes through a series of increasingly critical stages and is now precariously poised in a dependence on the rational response of
free creatures.
There is no shortage of native toads to be found in the U.S. - for
free - but these awesome
creatures may still deserve a space among the herptile pets that retailers offer for sale.
To all of you out
there who have opened your hearts and homes to bunnies, and who are certainly sick and tired of hearing how dumb and stupid these beautiful
creatures with the twitchy noses and long ears are, feel
free to share this true story!
As the villain you also have a campaign of sorts, and in each level of that campaign
there will be native
creatures you can use for
free.