- G-d exists.
This is the fundamental assumption based on my gut feelings. - I exist.
How else would I write this? - G-d has a nature He did not make for Himself.
How can the Uncreated Creator make a nature for Himself? That which is, is. - G-d made me in His image.
That means I have his nature, not that He has two legs and two arms nor that he likes blue jeans, although He might. - G-d made me to help Him figure out what His nature is.
If you want to know what you look like, you look in a mirror. If you want to understand a crime scene, you recreate the scene. If you want to know yourself, study those like yourself and in His case, create them if you have to.
What is the first principle of His nature? The second?
- He has no power greater than Himself and hence has ultimate free will to do whatever He chooses.
- He has a nature that circumscribes His will and directs His will.
- He has a free will that circumscribes His nature and enables or obstructs it by choice.
- He made me with this nature.
I have free will and a nature which complement and both reinforce and oppose each other. - Good or evil depend on free will choices to do or not do.
That which is compelled has no value. If G-d made me do a thing, then I could not be blamed for G-d chose. If G-d said I should do a thing and I didn't, I chose. - Therefore, G-d will not make me do anything.
G-d cannot make me do anything without abrogating my free will without which He cannot judge me as having made the choice as opposed to him.
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