(February 3, 2012 at 12:15 am)MysticKnight Wrote: It's usually argued that allowing evil was necessary to allow free-will.
A problem with this is that we know some people are not evil but good. God could have just created the good people and spared the evil people that would go to hell from being created.
I believe myself to have a 'good heart'... yet I still appreciate having the options of 'evil'. Even then... I rarely intentionally do something I regard as 'evil', and then only when I believe it is worth it.
Quote:God is believed to have knowledge of all potential souls. Even if it's 1 in a trillion souls that are good and would not do any serious evil, out of infinite potential souls, he could pick only those ones.
Options are nice to have... I'd be one hell of a lot less 'good hearted' without the ability to do evil. And my appreciation for the difference between them would be that much lower.
Quote:At the very least, he could have only created the people that would not earn hell.
Oh, is that the least 'he' could do? I take it he would have left out the cats, both great and domestic?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
