Anselm's Doctrine of Substitution

Is this not a bit like, "Can God create a rock he can not lift?"
Either answer results in God not being omnipotent.

Hi Jon,Thanks for the thoughtful response.To which I will add:If triangels had a god, it would have three sides.

Hi Phat,I will answer with a question:If during the holocaust a German family is hiding a family of jews in the attic. The SS come to the door and ask, are you hiding any jews in here. Is it as sin for the home owner to lie in order to save the jewish family therein?Quid est veritas?

So is lying in the spirit of the greater good a sin or no?If a mother or father are hiding from some enemy troops amoung a group of fellow villiagers. And they will all be put to the sword if found. Is it wrong for the mother to smother her crying baby to save the group?Quid est veratas?

Her intentions are to kill her crying child to save many more lives.The point I suppose I was getting at is many religions demand certainty and a black or white answer. Life on the other hand is anything but that.We can try as we may to contort our sense of morality and conform to the religious flavor of our choosing.
But at the end of the day we are all faced with the shades of gray that make up the pallet of our lives."Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

If evil ever existed it most certainly does so in war itself. Fully God and yet fully human.

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And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.Matt 25:40

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Phat, is it the nobility of character or the defamed and wretched who personify the mercy of Christ. Was that not whole point of God becomming fully human. Mary feeding him mashed bits of food. God stuffing his little face. God learning to walk, to experiance being human?

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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.Isaiah 45:7

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Can freewill exist without evil? Or is one choice over another simply a preference? Lucifer was a angel, a immortal being of pure intellect.
God created Lucifer, knowing he would betray him and be cast out of heaven.
Lucifer was no more responsible for his creation than us.
Where is our free will in terms of our own creation?And as far as God not choosing Lucifer to rebel or us to kill,
Maybe....
for something to happen something must exist.
for there to be death, there must be life.
for there to be Good, ....well you know the rest.

Hello Raphael, another angel eh?Sin is a necessary as the betrayal of Christ was.The mystery of faith, we can seek the answers in scripture but we are human and deeply flawed to perfection. Peace