Drich Wrote:Why does God allow sin? (A will apart from His own?) So that we may choose, whether or not we want to spend an eternity with God. In order for there to be a choice their must be true options. Ours are the expressed will of God or our own.
Now, imagine you are telling this to the parent of a child who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. Do you think you would be able to convince them that this is not malevolence, and how would you do so?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell