Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Almightiness Contradiction, artist - The Ocean. Album song Anthropocentric, in the genre
Date of issue: 08.11.2010
Record label: Metal Blade Records
Song language: English
The Almightiness Contradiction |
«Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? |
Then he is not omnipotent. |
Is he able, but not willing? |
Then he is malevolent. |
Is he both able and willing? |
Then whence cometh evil? |
Is he neither able nor willing? |
Then why call him God?» |
«If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is |
going to intervene to change the course of history |
using his omnipotence. |
But that means he can’t change his mind about his |
intervention which means he is not omnipotent» |
If He knew it all |
If He knew everything there is to be known |
Then that would mean that He would always know what to |
do next to change the course of history |
He could choose to suspend the laws of nature |
He would always know the past and the future |
But this would make his own knowledge untrue |
For if He knew everything |
He could not do anything different from what he knows |
And even if he could hear our prayers |
He could not encroach |
There’s noone here who knows it all |
There’s nothing there beyond the world we know |
There’s noone here who knows it all |
Is there something there beyond the world we know? |
Christian morality has all the characters of a |
reaction; |
it is, in great part, a protest against |
Paganism. |
Its ideal is negative rather than positive; |
passive |
rather than action; |
innocence rather than Nobleness; |
Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of |
Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) «thou |
shalt not» predominates unduly over «thou shalt.» |