RE: The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense.
July 27, 2012 at 7:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2012 at 7:35 am by Faith No More.)
fr0d0 Wrote:Heaven is not a corporeal world. Heaven is an ethereal world. God did create heaven, and all things lead to it. If that's what you want of God then God has provided it.
Which still doesn't answer the question of why god didn't simply create only heaven and spare his creation the suffering that exists in this corporeal existence.
fr0d0 Wrote:I fail to see unnecessry sufferring. Sufferring is a necessary part of nature. In the scheme of things (good and bad together, which is neither good nor bad), nature works.
Are you saying it was beyond god's ability to create nature without suffering?
fr0d0 Wrote:If you can say, like Skepsis has said above, that this world is a beautiful and wonderful place, then how can you not say that this is not a beautiful and wonderful creation? I don't separate the two.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so saying that you see a beautiful creation reflects only your subjective opinon. It does not necessarily follow that this beauty actually exists, however, upon further thought, I'm guessing you will argue an objective standard of beauty exists, correct?
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
