(May 25, 2018 at 5:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(May 25, 2018 at 4:35 pm)Edwardo Piet Wrote: Well... why did God allow people without a conscience to exist?
Sure, they'll behave good if they're so worried they'll get caught. But then again, they may just hurt people and avoid getting caught. Why would God allow psychopaths?
And if all that matters is the behavior, from God's perspective, why does he make 1% of people psychopaths but 99% of people non-psychopaths? What's the point of a conscience if psychopaths can still behave good?
Sure, they CAN, but only when they have to.
For the same unknown reasons He allows any other disorder or disease to exist, I suppose. Those are all natural consequences of a natural world. To prevent them, He'd have to divinely intervene every time they would happen, and this wouldn't be a natural world anymore. Why Did He choose to allow the world to be this way, instead of all magical? I don't know. But I do trust that if a God does exist, He knows much better than I do.
This is the best answer I've ever seen on this thread "For the same reason he allows any other disorder."
Indeed. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Now though, the question is, why does God allow any disorder to happen? Why does God allow childhood cancer to happen? And other serious diseases to happen to innocent children and animals? And extremely painful ones too? And childhood cancer existed in the past before pain medicine was allowed as well?
So I guess your answer is it is, indeed, an unknown reason. You say he must have a good reason. Well... I am not convinced. I really think if the God of the Bible exists he's not as good as he or the Bible claims him to be. Or at least not as competent as it is claimed that he is. Either his powers are a lot more limited than they're claimed to be, or he's not a good God. Or both.
Or he doesn't exist.
