(February 9, 2012 at 3:10 am)tackattack Wrote: Why would an all good not have to not allow evil to exist?
Man I had some double negatives in that last bit didn't I. Still unanswered though. Why would an all good God have to dismiss all evil?
@ Epimethean - Why would a god exist? IDK, there nothing requiring Him to exist or create.
@Rhythm -
Why would an all good god exist? Well if one does exist, I'd prefer it to be all good if the alternative is all bad, but again, it's not necessary.
Is indifference or complacency a facet of omnibenevolence?
I define omnibenevolence as the desire to act benevolent to everyone. indifference would be desiring nothing as would the act of doing nothing which is complacency. I would not say that an omnibenevolent being is indifferent or acts complacent.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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