I am not saying God could create a world in which free will was possible and doing bad things impossible. I am simply saying God could have created a world in which ETERNAL TORMENT for such things was not a part of reality. Although God could have made us immortal from the start and allowed all planets to sustain life thus eliminating harm in the first place.
Why start eternity later instead of now after all?
As far as God cannot do something outside of his nature what caused God to have his own nature? God is said to be uncaused and always to have existed but something caused the imprinting of his qualities. I never understood why people get upset about the idea of infinite regression with the Universe when God is defined in a way as to have never begun but always had these qualities as a part of nature. I won't get too far into that because that would derail the thread into a different topic.
I am all for the idea of God choosing to love us and therefore us wanting to love him. However God's way of getting our love seems to be through threats and gifts. If we do not give him our love he will deliver us to the worst kind of agony and if we do we get rewards. This reward/punishment morality/love system seems very primitive to me and I have a hard time believing an all wise being came up with it. I freely admit there may be some form of deity out there but I find it extraordinarily hard to believe Yahweh is that deity.
Why start eternity later instead of now after all?
As far as God cannot do something outside of his nature what caused God to have his own nature? God is said to be uncaused and always to have existed but something caused the imprinting of his qualities. I never understood why people get upset about the idea of infinite regression with the Universe when God is defined in a way as to have never begun but always had these qualities as a part of nature. I won't get too far into that because that would derail the thread into a different topic.
I am all for the idea of God choosing to love us and therefore us wanting to love him. However God's way of getting our love seems to be through threats and gifts. If we do not give him our love he will deliver us to the worst kind of agony and if we do we get rewards. This reward/punishment morality/love system seems very primitive to me and I have a hard time believing an all wise being came up with it. I freely admit there may be some form of deity out there but I find it extraordinarily hard to believe Yahweh is that deity.
