RE: Epicurus riddle.
January 22, 2016 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2016 at 9:48 am by Drich.)
(January 21, 2016 at 2:08 pm)Jenny A Wrote:Didn't read the link did you? The link represents 'the problem of evil' and how it has been argued for literally thousands of years! I don't have to argue with you because you are the one who literally arguing with how this paradox is accepted and defined.(January 21, 2016 at 12:19 pm)Drich Wrote: But here's the thing.. It's not a riddle it is a paradox. as in the Epicurean paradox. It is a point of philosophy in which is supposed to logically dispel God because his supposed attributes contradict the way the world supposedly works. For God to be identified as Malevolent in a paradox, the philosopher presupposes the opposite to be true. This is reflected in Epicurus' actual work "the problem of Evil."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
No. What the philosopher suggests is that it is evil to allow evil if you can prevent it especially if you created the evil in the first place. It's hard to argue with that.
Quote:But that is what free will advocates are arguing: free will of the evil doer is more important than the evil done to his victims. If you believe there is evil in the world and that allowing evil is evil, and you don't buy the free will argument you are left with three choices:We are slaves to either God or sin, their is no free will either.
1. God is omnipotent but evil.
2. God is not omnipotent.
3. There is no god.
You appear to have chosen option one. There's plenty of Biblical support for that. But why would you worship such a god?
So why do I want to worship God? I do not want to be bound/be a slave to sin.

