(June 11, 2012 at 3:10 pm)Drich Wrote: When did evil become a thing that needed to be created? (i'm asking for book Chapter and verse, not you personal philosphy)
Evil is an allowance by God. Evil is also the 'proof' of free will, and yes God takes pleasure in allowing us 'free will.'
For if righteousness is without sin, then evil is the allowance to be intently/maliciously outside the expressed will of God.
Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite "free will!", or “ it’s all man’s fault”.
That is "God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hence God is not blameworthy."
But this simply avoids God's culpability as the author of Human Nature. Free will is only the ability to choose. It is not an explanation why anyone would want to choose "A" or "B" (bad or good action). An explanation for why Eve would even have the nature of "being vulnerable to being easily swayed by a serpent" and "desiring to eat a forbidden fruit" must lie in the nature God gave Eve in the first place. Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall, and "free will" means nothing as a response to this problem.
If all sin by nature then, the sin nature is dominant. If not, we would have at least some who would not sin.
If we are to exercise our free will as you say to please God, then tell us why he threw such a hissy fit on A & E the first time they exercised their free will to do other than God's will.
Or is his hissy fit how he shows his pleasure?
Regards
DL
