Quote Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
By the way, God does not have absolute power over us.
Well, it depends on how you define "God". Everybody seems to have their own definition, but the one I'm using refers to an omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe. By definition, such a being must have absolute control over everything. Every event happens only because this entity created a universe in which he knew perfectly well that the objects involved would configure themselves in such a manner to produce the event. If he wanted a different universe, he would have set up the initial conditions differently, or would intervene so as to prevent the event from happening. In any case, if we're going to assume the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe called God, everything exists only because God created it and everything happens only because God made it happen and lets it happen.