Re: Unconditional freedom

Bruderhof wrote:

> Who does not want to be free? Wishing to be free is an easy matter, but 
> wishing is the most paltry and unfree of all performances. 
> 

The whole question of God’s omnipotence and the relation of goodness to 
evil may perhaps be resolved quite simply in this way. The highest that 
conceivably can be done for a being is to make it free. But it requires 
omnipotence for this. It may seem strange, since omnipotence would seem to

require dependence. But if one will think carefully about omnipotence, he 
will perceive that the distinctive characteristic of omnipotence is the 
ability to withdraw itself again. It is precisely for this cause that what

comes into existence by omnipotence can be independent.