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Moreover, because change exists in time, God must be timeless and eternal. According to the New UngerвЂ™s Bible Dictionary, вЂњTo think of God otherwise than as unchangeable is to think of Him otherwise than as perfect.вЂќ Any change would deviate from perfection. The doctrine of immutability entails that God cannot change.

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I have written this series as much for myself as for others. The point of this blog is to give people a sense of how Mormons think and believe, not to provide polished presentations of theology-not that there are many of those in Mormonism anyway. Each of the topics covered is quite a large subject, so my treatment of them is very pedestrian-which is all IвЂ™m presently qualified to do. These topics are highly interrelated so discussing one tends to involve the others. These posts will focus on the omnis already mentioned as well as the problem of evil as illustrated above. I hope the reader will realize our understandings of God are reasonable, not irrational, and even satisfying on many levels. In reading this post it will quickly become obvious that in many ways the Mormon conception of God differs from the traditional Christian one. Though the Mormon belief about God doesnвЂ™t resolve all difficult theological questions, it accords to the LDS philosopher a straightforward way in approaching many of them. If the answers were easy the debate would have ended long ago. Philosophers and theologians have been wrestling with those questions for centuries. Mackie, вЂњEvil and Omnipotence,вЂќ Mind, vol. Take the even, take the odd, I would not sleep here if I could.вЂ™вЂќ In a more formal statement, вЂњThe problem is this: God is omnipotent God is wholly good and yet evil existsвЂќ (J.

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If God is benevolent how could he allow wars to happen? or the Jewish holocaust to have occurred? If God cannot be wrong and foreknows history, where does that leave free will? Does God play with his human toys? If the future is as God knows it to be, is he powerless to change it? If God created all things, did he create evil? And why doesnвЂ™t he, according to Philip ApplemanвЂ™s so-called humble advice, вЂњmake the bad people good-and the good people niceвЂќ? Or is it as Nickles complained in the play J.B., вЂњI heard upon this dry dung heap that man cry out who cannot sleep: вЂIf God is God, he is not good.

While these omnis evoke a sense of awe and wonderment they also provoke very difficult theological questions. Omnibenevolent: possesses perfect love for all his creatures. Omnipresent: is free from all spatio-temporal limitations. Omniscient: perfect knowledge of all things past, present, and future. Omnipotent: God has all power, or infinite power. In the posts comprising this series, when I use the word God in an LDS context it is in this generic sense.Д¬onventional Christian theology asserts that God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent. (See Godhead: God or Gods?) Though we believe they share an intimate unity such that they may be spoken of as God, our language is along the lines of social trinitarianism generally, that is the sense of our unqualified monotheistic language. We believe the Godhead consists of three separate persons, each a God. We donвЂ™t adhere to the traditional belief that God has one essence and three personal distinctions we donвЂ™t accept GodвЂ™s plurality and unicity. By conceptions I mean that Mormonism has no prescribed conception of the attributes of God. In this six part series I explore Mormon conceptions of the attributes of God and compare them to traditional Christian beliefs. Related posts: Omniscience and Fate Omniscience and divine learning The Fall of Man: Defense of the Doctrine Whence God? Talking about God Immutable Omnipresent Impassible

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