(November 14, 2016 at 9:25 am)Tonus Wrote:(November 14, 2016 at 6:50 am)Little Rik Wrote: You forgot to mention something very important that I said and that is that there would not be any scope
for God to create anything if what God create would be the same as God.
What would be the point then?
I didn't mention it because it's irrelevant and I'm not even sure it makes sense.
If everything was positive that would not mean that everyone was God. It would just mean that God decided to make the universe that way. Nothing is out of God's reach due to his power and his ownership of creation. Therefore --and in spite of all of the convoluted explanations theists come up with-- any evil or wickedness or suffering exists either because God desires it or because God allows it. If he chooses to deal with it only after it has happened, then his approach is the same as that of imperfect and limited human beings, and it reinforces the notion that God is an invention of man who is made in our image.
God allows for a reason Ton.
And this reason is the same reason why you would teach your kids how to learn how to live.
When a teacher doesn't pass some of his-her students and the students suffer is because to pass them it would make the things even worse.
The reason is there Ton.
If you find too difficult to understand the reason then you got a problem.