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Show THINGS GOD CANNOT DO j Bj UK. JAMES I VANCE While God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, there are some things He cannot do Jod cannot lie He would cealc to bl Ood were He guilty of duplicity iod cannot sin. He cannot deny Himself. He is limited therefore, by His own nature The only freedom iod has is to act In harmony with what God Is. God cannot make two particles of matter occupy the same space at the same time At any rate, such abillt. is Inconceivable to the human mind. Ood cannot do a physical Impossibility, despite the fa t that He Is omnipotent. Go cannot make a creature w ho has freedom of t holce but who does not hae freedom of choice He Is omni-potent, omni-potent, but Hf- cannot do a moral an more than He can do a physical Impossibility. Im-possibility. And so when God oamt to make man. He hud H s choice either to give freedom of choice, or to withhold l;. If man was to become, he must be free Freedom and spiritual develop- H ment are inseparable A thing stay .f what u i?. An automaton is operated g , from without. Animals have pro- JJH cesses. Out not self-consciousness. A H creature capable of spiritual develop- H ment must be Invested with a self-de- H Therefore, if man was lo become SSSSISJ god-like, ho must be free. But, oie e m ifree, choice might be exercised In tho H irong way. The creature might choose 1 ,evii as well as good, for his character H in a fluid state This was the chaiue God had am' this the risk He ran to make a being H ! capable of limbing star-ward, but H Iwho might decide to go the other way- H In the exercise of his freedom, man H i chose evil. It was not the will of God H that SVll should enter His world. It H was the will of Cod thai man should . wh ' It is cheap thinking to say that be- H cause God Is omnipotent. He is respon- H sible for human failure. He is re- H 'sponsible for giving man a chance to H 'become. Man is responsible for what H lha does with his chance. H |