RE: The Problem of Evil combined with the problem of Free Will
May 24, 2017 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2017 at 12:44 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 24, 2017 at 8:23 am)Hammy Wrote:(May 23, 2017 at 11:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: For some people, great hardship strengthens their faith.
You're proving Aroura's point... some people do and some people. don't. It's all because of their specific nature... which they didn't themselves choose.
That begs the question because you are presuming determinism by saying their 'nature' makes them choose a certain way. They live under different circumstances and have different experiences but that does not necessarily compel them to respond to the challenges or comforts that they encounter in a specific way. It could just as easily be that someone with a charmed life of comfort and pleasure would take God's role in their life for granted and attribute his success to self-reliance and personal virtue.
(May 24, 2017 at 12:35 pm)Aroura Wrote: So even the Christans here disagree as to the answers to these questions. Is god just? So far it looks like one yer, one no, and one equivocation.
How and why we are saved seems pretty damned important. It is eternal after all. It's a good thing the just god has given everyone an equal shot at it. Not.
Christians don't need definitive answers on specific theological points in order to trust in Jesus and the authority of Scripture. It seems to me that you are exaggerating internecine squabbles to justify your incredulity.
