tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32613460.post8263443465520595952..comments2023-05-24T13:59:06.959+01:00Comments on Barnaby Perkins: No natural necessity...Barnaby Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319261226357587158noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32613460.post-79057897076077227322013-09-12T12:14:36.559+01:002013-09-12T12:14:36.559+01:00Hello,
If you get this, I would love to know to w...Hello,<br /><br />If you get this, I would love to know to whom I am responding. <br /><br />I think that Farrer is making a really interesting point about sequence and discursivity in the divine will. I think he is saying that whatever analogy we choose to express the divine decree, we have to realise that it is an analogy, and that God's simplicity and atemporality cannot allow God working his way through a selection of possible worlds before arriving at the best of all options available. In this sense, I would suggest that the only rule which constrains God is that of his own nature, which he could not contradict.<br /><br />Hope that give some light on what is probably the most knotty question within philosophical theology.<br /><br />Again, I would love to know who I am responding to, so please drop me a line.<br /><br />Barnaby Barnaby Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11319261226357587158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32613460.post-83404888304273670972013-09-11T19:54:23.713+01:002013-09-11T19:54:23.713+01:00The Barnaby Blog has the most difficult -prove you...The Barnaby Blog has the most difficult -prove you are not a robot - that I know. Is it a defence mechanism?<br />Anyway Farrar [ Barnaby's 'love'] expresses the classic version of God's freewill in prose so superb that I suspect it is beyond many readers today. But behind all that beauty, I wonder. It is open to God to set up his own 'rules', as we all do from time to time. The scientists spend much time trying to uncover the rules of the Universe. Perhaps God himself first established rules for Himself, so to tantalise the scientists and to set a framework for the rest of us? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com