RE: God's Most Appalling Act
April 23, 2012 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2012 at 11:10 am by Cyberman.)
(April 23, 2012 at 10:29 am)sarah888 Wrote:
wow, why does everyone blame God, why not the real enemy, (Satan).? God permits evil, he does not will it. something always good comes out of evil. we may not understand it, but for our own good we have evil in this world. And man most of the time is responsible for evil,however out of evil people unite we learn lessons and how to love more.
Sarah
Alright, let's try something else. If this god of yours permits evil, it is at least as evil as that which it permits. I could stand by and watch as some thug rapes and murders a defenseless young girl, even though I might be perfectly capable of preventing it. It may be that the thug cannot control his actions and is compelled to rape and kill; but what does that say about me? Even if I'm not directly to blame, I am still complicit.
If Satan does the evil that your god permits, and something good will always come from it, what makes Satan an enemy? And an enemy of whom, anyway?
Finally, if your god was to appear to you and command you to commit some atrocity - dashing babies' heads against rocks, for example - would you do it? After all, going by what you wrote above, you have to assume that there is some greater good to come.
(If you do reply to this, please try to do it with no shouting, unnecessary emboldening or weird font sizes. My eyes thank you.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
