RE: Fine Tuning Principle: Devastating Disproof and Scientific Refutation of Atheism.
September 5, 2023 at 9:06 am
(September 4, 2023 at 12:29 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(September 4, 2023 at 12:14 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: free will is the mental equivalent of the elevator’s door close button, or the steering wheel to amuse the young child in the stroller. it creates satisfying perception of mastery without actually being connected to anything.
Free will solves a number of problems that crop up for believers:
Q. If God is all-powerful and all-good, why does he let evil things happen?
A. The evil-doers must exercise free will when they do evil, otherwise God would be unjust to punish them.
Q. Okay, but what about natural disasters? Does God give the Earth free will to do those things to us?
A. God allows evil things to happen to test if we still freely accept His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ as our Personal Lord and Savior even when times are bad.
Q. Isn't God all-knowing? Why the test? Why not just look into our minds and read our faithfulness right off the dial?
A. God has free will also, and that is the mysterious way he chose to deal with us.
That rather sounds contradictory to the omnibenevolence thing. If god were truly omnibenevolent, he would not let bad things happen to people no matter what, just like a good parent with their offspring.
Those answers are the result of religious people trying too hard, if you ask me.
