(April 21, 2011 at 12:45 am)Godschild Wrote: Frodo is correct in what he has stated, you all want to see God in a bad light and so you do. God does love us all equally but that doesn't mean everyone gets the same life or the same breaks in life. It doesn't work that way. Let's look at it this way, a family with several children in it, some are physically fit a few have slight physical defects and a couple have bad physical defects. The parents have the means to get help for two with the bad defects and they do ( good parents ). What about the ones with slight defects, the parents get them help because the children complain they were not treated equally (good parents ). Now the ones who have no defects feel left out and want something done for their looks and the parents do so (good parents). Now all the children that had physical defects feel that they deserve to have more surgery to bring them to the standard of the ones who had no defects and on and on this goes and the parents do not know how to stop this maddening cycle and give up (bad parents). So whats the answer, all the children wanted to be treated equally and the loving parents wanted to give them what they wanted yet the result was unsatisfied childern. Where does this kind of attitude end, with all the children mad at mom and dad. This is the human condition, we will never be satisfied unless we love the One in control unconditionally.This paragraph doesn even come close to the topic, much less a theodicy. The topic is "Who's god did this". In order for this paragraph to even come CLOSE to the topic, the parents would have KNOWINGLY had to have created the children with these physical defects. So you believe your god only has enough cash to deal with certain ones who are bad off, and the others he has no cash or power to help fix. And then, eventually, your god does not know how to stop the maddening cycle and then he just gives up?
Hey, that was your comparison. Apparently your solution to the problem of evil is to claim that your god is NOT all powerful, and is therefore helpless in the face of such overwhelming malevolence. He might be able to help some people some time, but according to you, your god is not all powerful and is overwhelmed by the maddening cycle of disease and hate, so therefore gave up.
Doesnt sound like a benevolent god to me. Sounds like you worship a faulty human, who breaks under pressure and is unable to handle his own creation.---and you wonder why we are not interested in converting to your beliefs.
In your paragraph, you also make a very common, and very WRONG mistake when discussion of god come up. You are trying to compare an all knowing, all powerful god to mortal people. Can those parents easily snap their fingers and cure every physical defect of their children? No. Would they if they could? Well, if they could but chose not to, that would make them sons-of-bitches in my eyes. Something tells me you would agree with that.
...NOW....
Insert a god into the mix. This god can snap his fingers and get everything he wants. God could easily snap his finger to cure all four of those children, but he doesnt. A benevolent person, and most especially a benevolent god, would not think twice about curing all 4 of those children, no questions asked. God does not cure those children. ANY of them. Which leads to the obvious conclusion that your god is NOT benevolent at least.. and maybe, just maybe, doesnt give a fuck.
..and you worship that careless prick.
