RE: Questions for "Our Role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums"
May 17, 2018 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 10:57 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(May 17, 2018 at 10:42 am)Hammy Wrote:(May 17, 2018 at 10:38 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I dont think so. I assume He probably has a very good reason for creating a natural world. All we can see is the here and now, which is a tiny speck in proportion to eternity and the entire universe. There's no way we can say, with our extremely limited knowledge, that everything would be better off overall if God did certain
things differently.
However limited our knowledge is we do know that anyone capable of preventing child rape, and that has all the power and knowledge of preventing it without any cost to themselves whatsoever, and yet refuses to do so nonetheless, is extremely immoral.
Any person, yes. And im sure Jesus would have prevented it too if He were human and a child was about to be raped in front of Him. Just as He prevented the stoning of that woman.
But for God to prevent it, it would mean supernatural devine intervention. The whole point of this world is that it is a natural world where God allows things to happen as they will. If God were to do His magic every time something bad was about to happen, or every time a person was about to use their free will for evil deeds, this wouldn't be Earth, it wouldn't be a natural world. And there wouldn't really be a difference between this life and the next, supernatural one.
I trust that since God can see everything and knows everything, and I don't/can't, that the world being this way will all make sense in the long run and will overall have a net good. We just cant see that in the here and now.
Not a perfect analogy by any means, but it's along the same concept as me taking my cats to the vet. They get extremely upset. They hate riding in the car, they hate being put inside those little carriers, they get freaked out of their minds by the vet poking them with needles and sticking thermometers up their butt. They cry and scream and get mad at me for having them go through that. They can't possibly understand why it needs to happen that way, and that it's all for the better in the long run.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
