(November 18, 2021 at 11:30 am)Ahriman Wrote: Here's a radical idea......what if the universe was created, but evolution is real? Mind blowing.
Not really, it's a neat evasion. Exactly what I was taught at the Catholic school I attended. Evolution was of course god's will. How could it be otherwise, since all of creation is god's will.
Was a time I was really confused about the problem of evil. Turns out there's nothing to be confused about. God unapologetically created evil. Don't like it youse can lump it.
The Bible actually has a lot to say about Evil. Below three quotes.
Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 53 helpful votes
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Micah 1:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
Numbers 21;5-6 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
Seems Epicurus was right; God can but chooses not to remove evil. That makes him malevolent . This pretty much how I've seen YHWH of the Torah. If I lived in biblical times and believed, I would be constantly fucking terrified. YHWH was such a vindictive and capricious cunt.
