(March 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 6, 2016 at 3:01 am)robvalue Wrote: I've never heard an answer to this. Time and again, "free will" is brought up as a get-out-of-jail-free card for God's negligence. Examples like this are brought up to show the gaping holes in the idea, and then it just drifts off into the sunset after getting no reply, waiting for the process to repeat.
Any christian like to have a stab at this? (Anyone who is interested in defending God to some higher standard than "everything he does is great".)
Having the free will to choose to "follow" God, or not, is one thing. Why do you additionally need the option of raping children? Isn't just ignoring God enough for him? I mean, I ignore God, but I don't need to rape kids or bang nails into kittens in order to make the choice clear. So what is the point of allowing such actions to be possible? If he's so set on objective morality, he could make these things into an actual law, so that we literally can't do them (and wouldn't even think about wanting to do them). Why include this "feature"?
Cue "mysterious ways", which basically means I should ignore anything else the person has said on the subject up to this point, as they admit they have no understanding of God.
Are you asking why God gave us the free will to rape? Having full control over your own body means you have the freedom to use your body to do horrible things, rape included. If we were to magically become paralyzed every time we wanted to do something bad, then we wouldn't really have free will or bodily autonomy.
God didn't give us the free will to flap our arms and fly, presumably because he wanted to prevent us from doing so. We thus do not really have free will or bodily autonomy.
