Reply #57: If, Sir

[The Magistrate]

You accept 'god' is not all powerful and has limits, then your view has consistency, but that view contradicts any view of the deity properly characterized as Christian or Biblical, though it would lie well within various dualistic and polytheistic traditions. The person whose statements triggered this discussion would angrily reject your view as false teaching.

It is, of course, an interesting fact that a great many people who identify themselves as Christians hold to a variety of beliefs that are wholly at odds with Christian dogma, ranging from universal salvation to reincarnation.