The nature of God
In your college lectures you've asked your students what does a God who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent lack? Your answer is "he lacks limitation". I’ve thought about this a bit and I think that's incorrect. I think God is bounded by the laws of nature and I don't think he can muck around with those laws without there being serious consequences. Plus I don't think God can produce falsehoods, which is what would happen if he starts changing those laws. With that being said there is a natural law called the Transitive Property of Equality, which states if A=B and B=C then A must equal C. So if Christ is a God and Chrsit was a man, then God must be man. So my question is what are the limitations of a God who is a man? Or better yet, considering statements you have made about not knowing the upper limits of someone who truly got their act together, what their life would be like? Could they transend themselves into a God? I would love your thoughts on that and thank you for your time.
Conspiracy theories...
Its hard not to get lost in possible conspiracy theories, especially when quite a few come true...ie vaccine info, re you wont get it, you cannot pass it on, you can get it, you can pass it on, masks work, they dont work etc...there are lots more in the world, especially today, not just vaccine related. What is your take on these conspiracy theories that are coming true, quick time? Thanks for all you do
Harry Potter Breaking Rules and my 10yr old
Im 30 and have a 10 year old daughter (she’s brilliant). As a younger man still learning and growing myself, I found myself a bit stumped from my daughters question about her observations of the first 2 Harry Potter movies - she said “why do Harry and his friends get praised in the end of the movie even though they broke the rules? How do we know when it’s ok to break the rules adults set?” … i essentially told her that there are times that people do/need to break rules for the greater good (Rahab hiding Jewish men and lying about it). But I struggled to articulate to her how we should only break rules that are breaking the “ultimate rule” - if your teacher says you should push kids on the playground when they are in your way - this would be a rule that you should break to keep the greater rule of being respectful and kind… is there a better way for me to articulate this to my daughter, and am I thinking correctly? Thanks so much for the help!