RE: Debunking Christianity? It's actually quite as simple as asking "why?"
July 17, 2011 at 2:17 pm
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This puts a limitation on God: he is not omnipotent as he cannot create one thing without it's anteform. Christian theology insists God is omnipotent, so in theory God could create "good" without creating "evil." However, Isaiah clearly states he creates evil, so the point is moot.
Perhaps you meant to say "a mote." Having replied to the contradiction in different posts, I'll take on Isaiah: Isaiah agrees with me. I wasn't trying to explain how God had nothing to do with creating evil, but how it came about as the one necessary condition to his creation of good. Now I imagine you want to blame him for creating evil. Would you rather inhabit a stagnant world where kind and cruel acts cannot be distinguished from one another? Or would you rather that God had no control over creating evil? Instead there were some equally powerful deity thwarting him at every step. Christianity offers you the comfort in knowing that since God is good, evil can be overcome and that, despite your propensity to sin and to be the victim of sinners, there is ultimately some benefit to a universe in which evil and righteousness coexist, since its goodly creator took all this into account and went ahead with creating them both (evil and rightwitness) anyway.
