Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: April 28, 2025, 12:38 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Free will and the necessary evil
#8
RE: Free will and the necessary evil
(October 30, 2022 at 11:22 am)Mystical Wrote: Just wondering if there was anyone who wanted to explain free will in reference to the existence of god and why suffering is a thing that exists for all eternity according to Christianity but god did it so its ok? I keep running into self proclaimed Christains who claim god "isnt like that" and they don't believe in Hell.
Isn't that like having your cake and eating it too? There's an entire book dedicated to it in the New Testament after all..

May not be a new topic for you but I want to refresh my memory on the subject with anyone (within reason) whose interested.

I don't know about suffering in Hell, or how/why it would be worse than suffering in this life, but in terms of suffering in this life, God probably figured it was better for humans to suffer and exist than not suffer and not exist, by which I mean, suffering might have been an essential ingredient when creating humanity.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
Reply



Messages In This Thread
Free will and the necessary evil - by Mystical - October 30, 2022 at 11:22 am
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Angrboda - October 30, 2022 at 1:24 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by LinuxGal - November 10, 2022 at 3:35 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Neo-Scholastic - November 10, 2022 at 9:11 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2022 at 12:50 am
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by ayost - November 11, 2022 at 12:50 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2022 at 1:35 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Ahriman - November 11, 2022 at 2:39 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by LinuxGal - November 11, 2022 at 2:55 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Ahriman - November 11, 2022 at 3:03 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 11, 2022 at 5:09 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Ahriman - November 11, 2022 at 5:34 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by Angrboda - November 11, 2022 at 4:49 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2022 at 2:49 pm
RE: Free will and the necessary evil - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2022 at 3:01 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  UCKG: Church tells boy 'evil spirit' hides in him zebo-the-fat 3 1017 June 12, 2024 at 11:01 pm
Last Post: arewethereyet
Brick If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist zwanzig 738 80652 June 28, 2023 at 10:48 am
Last Post: emjay
  Free will and the necessary evil Mystical 133 24854 December 16, 2022 at 9:17 pm
Last Post: Jehanne
  Armageddon. Does it make Jesus rather evil? Greatest I am 21 3370 February 9, 2021 at 1:35 pm
Last Post: arewethereyet
  Christians pray evil away on the winter solstice. brewer 9 1532 December 29, 2020 at 1:27 pm
Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
  Hitler was genocidal and evil. Yahweh’s genocides are good; say Christians, Muslims & Greatest I am 25 4003 September 14, 2020 at 3:50 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  If evidence for god is in abundance, why is faith necessary? Silver 181 47563 November 11, 2017 at 10:11 pm
Last Post: Cyberman
  Theist ➤ Why ☠ Atheism is Evil Compared to ✠ Christianity The Joker 177 34403 December 3, 2016 at 11:24 pm
Last Post: Amarok
  The Problem of Evil (XXVII) SteveII 248 37467 June 16, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Last Post: SteveII
  The illusion of justice, sin and free will dyresand 17 5478 October 15, 2015 at 10:42 pm
Last Post: Pyrrho



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)