Re: Re: RE: God

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> >Or
> maybe He doesn't want to, or can't do anuthing about it, or doesn't know?
> Any of these hypothese are inconsiastent with the usual three-A God.
>

The key lines (God himself speaking)in Milton's dramatization of the
"Free Will Defense" are:

But yet all is not don; Man disobeying,
Disloyal breaks his fealtie, and sinns
Against the high Supremacie of Heav'n,
Affecting God-head, and so loosing all,
To expiate his Treason hath naught left,
But to destruction sacred and devote,
He with his whole posteritie must dye,
Dye hee or Justice must; unless for him
	(III, 203-210)

"Die he [Adam, 'Man'kind] or justice must" -- A sheer abstraction
balances billions of lives (not to mention the animal pain Justin
notes).

Carrol