What would happen ...

[MoreCoffee]

What would happen if God were proved wrong? In a film from a couple of decades ago God was in jeopardy of being wrong when two semi-fallen angels conspired to regain heaven by obtaining a plenary indulgence - the circumstance that would allow for this to happen and the plan to make it happen were formulated by a demon but the two semi-fallen angels didn't know that. Now don't get worked up about the film's plot details and forget the word "indulgence" - it is only an incidental to my question a mere circumstance of the film's plot. Would creation be un-created if God were proven wrong?

As a second question: do you think that God achieves his purposes by the exercise of his omnipotent power? There was a theological movement that posited that God can only know what is possible to know and that the future is not possible to know so God's purposes are achieved only because of his omnipotence rather than because he foresees the future. I do not subscribe to that theology - I think it is one of many heresies that arise because people want to make God fit their ideas about what God MUST BE - it is like rejecting eternal punishment on the basis of people reasoning that an all good God cannot eternally torment finite creatures without being unjust and cruel. So is God always right because he is always more mighty than anybody else?

 

[Cassia]

What would happen if God were proved wrong? In a film from a couple of decades ago God was in jeopardy of being wrong when two semi-fallen angels conspired to regain heaven by obtaining a plenary indulgence - the circumstance that would allow for this to happen and the plan to make it happen were formulated by a demon but the two semi-fallen angels didn't know that. Now don't get worked up about the film's plot details and forget the word "indulgence" - it is only an incidental to my question a mere circumstance of the film's plot. Would creation be un-created if God were proven wrong?

As a second question: do you think that God achieves his purposes by the exercise of his omnipotent power? There was a theological movement that posited that God can only know what is possible to know and that the future is not possible to know so God's purposes are achieved only because of his omnipotence rather than because he foresees the future. I do not subscribe to that theology - I think it is one of many heresies that arise because people want to make God fit their ideas about what God MUST BE - it is like rejecting eternal punishment on the basis of people reasoning that an all good God cannot eternally torment finite creatures without being unjust and cruel. So is God always right because he is always more mighty than anybody else?

When a person knows the character of another person and has been around that person enough to absorb the essence of their character then one can usaully tell when something is being said about their character that doesn't sound true to what you know about that person.

The character of God can be known in the same way. Think of what you know to be true about God and subtract that which does not add up.

Might has never made right so I don't think that is the answer. God achieves His purpose in a way that is understandable to mankind. So if an angry God is the definition of what one knows about God then that fits their reality.