(January 21, 2016 at 4:06 am)robvalue Wrote: Free will. If I ever get my hands on it, I'm going to slap it silly until it begs for momma.
I'm really tired of it being trotted out as an excuse. Like you say, if someone is raping a kid, the kid's free will is being violated. So either God steps in to violate the free will of the rapist, or he watches as the kid's free will is taken away. Which would be the better option?
Oh wait, the better option would have been to not create humans who would ever even think about raping each other. But that would imply some sort of thoughtful design.
Seriously???
lets give this a little more thought.
Let's say God regulates all sin, down to two or three and the worst thing we could then do to each other was gossip or produce little white lies.. (Do I look fat?/Noooo you look... 'good~')
What or where then would the self righteous move the bar of detestable sin/crime? Gossip and lies would quickly become the rape and murder of that society, because those people would not know/fear anything worse.
Rape and murder are simply the limits God will allow us to do to each other. I however could imagine far worse things, most people consider them to be fairy tales but what if things like literal zombies or the ablity to reanimate someone were possible? What if you could steal/control another person's soul/self awareness? what if we could destroy each other's souls?
The fact that we can imagine far worse and those things have been put out of our reach is a testament to the limits God has placed on man. It is our perception of sin that grades one more wrong than another. To God all sin is equal from the stand point that they all deserve the same death.
