RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
January 24, 2017 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2017 at 9:54 pm by Angrboda.)
(January 23, 2017 at 2:50 pm)Godschild Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 6:55 am)ProgrammingGodJordan Wrote: Are you saying God has made you omniscient?
Otherwise, how have you come to know whether absolutes are possible?
How has reliance in God granted you omniscience of any event? (RELIANCE is not equal to omniscience)
I said nothing about myself be omniscient, I'm informed by God himself who is omniscient.Being that He knows all things then what He says is reliable, thus I do not need to be omniscient only trusting.
GC
How do you 'know' that this God you are familiar with is omniscient?
(January 23, 2017 at 4:21 am)Godschild Wrote:(January 22, 2017 at 10:47 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Well, for one, they are radically different things. For two, what does a "lack of a good that ought to be" really mean. When a man rapes a woman, what good that should be is that a lack of? The idea that evil is just a lack of good is nothing but an empty metaphor.
Good in itself is just a word without defining properties. In your example the lack of good without it's properties would make your statement true. In the case of rape you posed, the lack of "respect" would be the good that's missing. Good and evil are actions of some kind and are opposed to each other, the action of good is the opposite of evil.
Is rape really the opposite of respect? That seems like a forced antonymy. There are a lot of things lacking in the rapist, but the defining feature of the rapist is their willingness to commit such a heinous act. This is not a deficit but a surplus. I know you're taught this 'evil is the lack of good' line, but it quite frankly doesn't make any sense. Nor does it resolve what is the nature of neutral actors. They lack good, so are they evil? Nonsense.
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