(March 7, 2016 at 3:40 pm)abaris Wrote:(March 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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.
Which should have been obvious to an omniscient and omnipotent being right from the get go. Even if I found any reason to believe in god given free will in the first place, god would know about any rape, any murder, millions of years before it has been comitted. The tales never did add up for me and I never even dived into these issues being illogical. For me it was entirely sufficient that (catholic) god doesn't compute with earth's history.
That is true that we believe God is all knowing. Which is why part of our faith includes the belief that in the end, everything will be made right, despite whatever temporary pain we have to go through.
In the meantime though, part of being human means we have the ability to choose good from evil, and we have the ability to act on either of those. Even though many of us will choose to do horrible things at times, God looked at humanity and still called it good. The good out weighs the bad, and in the end, everything will be made right. We don't know how or when because mere humans can't fully understand God, and can't see the whole universe - past, present, and future, but our beliefs are that God is goodness and love.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
