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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 21, 2016 at 10:36 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:
(February 21, 2016 at 1:41 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: But it still does not solve the dilemma of why an Omni benevolent god would allow evil to occur. Its a non-answer, it's the same as saying I don't know.

Not just omnibenevolent, but omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, plus the flawlessness of perfection to boot. With ultimate perfection and greatness come the ultimate responsibility, and ultimately one cannot possibly be all of the above and allow anything evil to happen. A god which lives up to the above claims would not allow bad things to happen anywhere that it has influence because it simply cannot. It does allow evil, therefore the Xtian god is not what is claimed of it.

I'm not all that familiar with the bible, is there anything in there that says god is omnibenevolent?  If it says anywhere in the bible that god is always benevolent then there might be a contradiction since he isn't benevolent in the bible towards sinners, for example he drowns the sinners of the earth in the story of Noah, although it doesn't say how he treats them in the afterlife it could be argued he's being benevolent in some mysterious way we don't understand in the long run.

Specifically related towards the suffering of children this isn't really a dilemma, from my own standpoint as an atheist god is a made up character and a theist can basically make up any reason as to why children might have to go through suffering, some of which have already been mentioned. It's a test from god, a mysterious test we don't understand, we don't know what he's doing and so on.


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RE: The problem of evil/suffering when it comes to children - by paulpablo - February 22, 2016 at 12:34 am

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