We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Does God take risks?
6 comments:
He's taking a big risk on me.
Renea,
Ok. Great. I've heard it said that once you're on board, God will never let you get off.
What a Zen-like question! Throwing omniscience up against free will! When God gave humankind the right to make choices with consequences, he/she took a risk. When God sent his only begotten son, he took a risk. I think that is part of our being made in God's image: when we choose to love, we take a risk.
Carter,
Thanks. Like it.
Do you see risk as implying a lack of knowledge?
Not at all. That is why it is so Zen. How can god be god unless omniscient? How can god be just without allowing us to exercise choice and repercussions of that? These two apparent contradictions are (at least for me) completely impossible to reconcile. But in god, they are. Risk is not lack of knowledge anymore than omniscience checkmates effective free will. If there were no free will, then god could not be just.
Carter,
Yes. I agree that risk does not have to imply a lack of knowledge, which could make it negative for God.
I was thinking of the term "independence" might be better. Perhaps, this is preferable to "risk" or "no risk". That is, God creates outside of God and in so doing God intentionally gives a degree of independence to that which is created. This is not so much a risk, but a purpose.
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