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The problem of evil/suffering when it comes to children
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RE: The problem of evil/suffering when it comes to children
(February 20, 2016 at 2:45 am)robvalue Wrote: As soon as someone says that God and his plan is "beyond their understanding" then they have admitted they have no way of knowing what his intentions are. How do you differentiate a good god from an evil God, if allowing children to be raped is what a good god does?

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God also set the rules up in the first place, apparently. So he decided that child rape would be an integral part of his plan, when he presumably could have just not had it at all, and had the same outcomes. That makes it a conscious choice on his part, which achieves nothing extra.

How can a god even have a "plan" anyway? If it's guaranteed to work, it's not a plan, it's a pre-drawn conclusion. Calling it a plan implies something or someone can actually thwart it. What would that be?
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RE: The problem of evil/suffering when it comes to children - by robvalue - February 20, 2016 at 7:02 am

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