RE: is Seattle the new fort Sumter?
June 14, 2020 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2020 at 9:17 am by UtilitarianDeist.)
(June 13, 2020 at 6:56 am)Agnostico Wrote: Hi. U believe there is a God, right. And if your Christian u believe that God loves people, that he's omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and the rest.
I believe that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent but I don't think I believe he's any of those things in any sort of sense that any Christian would accept.
Quote:Why then would he allow sin, pain, suffering and evil to prevail?
God does whatever he wants which is whatever is metaphysically possible. It may be the case that this world is mostly suffering but that doesn't mean that reality as a whole is. The amount of suffering on this one planet is tiny compared to the rest of God's well-being. We're cosmically unimportant to him.
Quote: If there really is God and Satan doing battle in a war of good and evil why is Satan winning?
If Satan exists he's just part of God too.
And such a Satan may be 'winning' on this planet but overall he isn't winning if this planet is cosmically unimportant and insignificant to God.
All the pain and suffering on this planet is, to God, just like an itch that he wants to scratch. Ever had an itch that is really satisfying to scratch? That's what the suffering on this planet is like to God.
