(May 26, 2016 at 6:49 pm)Gemini Wrote:(May 26, 2016 at 12:46 am)Godschild Wrote: Please don't be stupid or take me as stupid, God's providence over His creation means He can and does allow misery, pain, sickness and other things that He wills, not to see and enjoy anyone suffering but to complete His will that He had for His creation before He created it. Why didn't you answer the question, could it be you do not have one. God's providence over His creation is His and His alone because it's His creation and He actually can do with it a He desires.
I don't take you as stupid, I take you as someone who evidently doesn't believe that God is omnibenevolent. To say that he "can and does allow misery, pain, sickness, and other things" in order to "complete His will" isn't to defend the moral character of your deity. "His will" could as easy be malicious or indifferent to suffering as it could be benevolent.
No it can't, the Bible clearly lays out for us God's purpose and that purpose is redemption, He desires all to be saved and works for that to be possible for every one, unfortunately that want happen.
Gemini Wrote:Do you believe that God's commands, whatever they are, are morally justified, just because it was God who issued them? If so, then I suppose you could claim to believe in a God who is omnibenevolent, although in that case his omnibenevolence is a trivially true entailment of divine command theory.
Yes absolutely, without doubt, He has providence over His creation. I suppose one could look at it that way. I dislike the term because it's used to discredit God and the Bible doesn't teach He is omnibenevolent. This is a term that atheist have made up and or learned from those who hate God, and they use it in a negative way against God and, like I said the Bible doesn't teach omnibenevolence.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.