RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
March 3, 2017 at 4:39 am
(March 3, 2017 at 4:14 am)Orochi Wrote:If A is true, then it is impossible to literally create evil, since evil is just a contradiction of moral truths. However, it can be argued that creating the prerequisites for the possibility of evil would be a contradiction of moral truths. This depends on whether these prerequisites for the possibility of evil are consistent with moral truths. If so, then there is no inconsistency here. Can you think of a reason that creating the prerequisites for evil to be possible is synonymous with contradicting moral truth?(March 3, 2017 at 3:38 am)TheAtheologian Wrote: Unfortunately, that won't work for the theist since they can say this:
A. Evil is the contradiction of moral truth.
B. People are free to contradict moral truth, and is morally permissible to allow it.
If A and B are true, this argument presented falls apart.
You have two options here:
1. Throw out the argument made in this forum.
2. Demonstrate that at least one of these (A or B) is flawed.
I wouldn't exactly add this to my list of arguments, but it could be made part of a larger argument.
It's morally permissible for a perfectly good being to allow people to a contradict moral truth? that seems like creating evil to me. By the fact of first making the decision to allow the act in the first place .Or worst by creating the actor in the first place.
Quote:Evil contradicting moral truth first assumes the theists god is moral truth or has moral truth if not he has neither .Then he most certainly can be evil or the creator of evil without contradiction .Because there nothing inherent to being god the grants him either.Theists (Christians, Muslims, and Jews) believe God is moral truth, that is in their concept. Since this concept entails God being one with morality (synonymous with morality), God is inherently omnibenevolent.
Of course, I don't even believe in objective moral truths myself, but I was just granting them for the sake of this case.
Hail Satan!