(October 7, 2012 at 12:59 am)Drich Wrote:(October 6, 2012 at 11:50 pm)System of Solace Wrote: One again, we can look back at Epicurus. If god is omnipotent, he has the ability to prevent sin and evil- but he does not. Is he willing but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. If he is both, from whence comes evil? Is he neither? Then why call him god?
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...I don't know why you are trying to use this to refute the epicurean paradox when it failed the first time. How about this: Is god able, but not willing to prevent suffering? Then he is malevolent. It is true that some suffering is the result of human mistakes, but how can you argue that taking cancer from a small child infringes on their free will?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
