RE: Questions for "Our Role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums"
May 17, 2018 at 11:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 11:56 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 17, 2018 at 11:44 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Again, this is not a logical problem. That has been demonstrated time and time again. Objecting to the existence of God based on theodicy is, and always will be, an argument from incredulity. It requires the person making the objection to prove that God could not have had good reasons for allowing evils as opposed to the idea that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Wrong. A possible world without evil can be described. If God was morally perfect he would choose that one.
Quote: No Christian is surprised by terrible diseases, horrific catastrophes, or heinous acts of violence and depravity. Skeptics citing extreme examples, like child abuse or flesh eating bacteria, only confirms in my mind how desperately in need of a Savior we are and our duty to serve as the Body of Christ in this world. You can choose to believe what you want but don't fool yourself into believing it is a rational choice.
No one 'chooses to believe what they want'. You're unconvinced by my objections to the very notion of a supposedly perfectly good God choosing a world with lots of evil in it. That's not you 'choosing' to not believe me. It's you failing to grasp the concept.
