(June 19, 2012 at 7:55 am)Zen Badger Wrote:What does the fact that bad things occur have to do with God expressing His perfectly just and virtuous nature more fully? Is it your understanding that bad things should not happen in the context of fallen free creatures and that the fact of their happening is somehow evidence against God's nature?(June 18, 2012 at 7:58 pm)gomtuu77 Wrote: I would suggest that it was because it pleased Him to do so. In addition, it was another way in which He could express his only perfectly virtuous and just nature. And having more epxression of perfection is better than less, at least from my perspective.
Yep, sends bears to maul children to death.......
Very just and virtuous indeed.
Sounds more like a petulant child having a temper tantrum than a supreme deity to me.
In His Grip,
gomtuu77
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis, Is Theology Poetry? -
gomtuu77
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis, Is Theology Poetry? -
