clemdog14 Wrote:Perhaps God does not desire evil, however, by giving us free will, he gives us the option to commit evil acts. This does not mean that he desires for us to commit evil.I would think that he would want us to do good instead.Again, if he did not desire it he would not have created it. Evil is its own thing altogether. You can read genesis to understand that Evil is knowledge, awareness, and other attributes "common" to humans. So if you're right, "good" would be the lack of those things. Furthermore, by giving us free will, he gives us the option to commit evil which he created in the first place. With this knowledge, don't you think that at the least, he should not condemn us in the way that he PROMISES in retaliation to our evilness?? Since after all, he gave us evilness.
Quote:Question: are you implying that we are not broken?absolutely as something that is constantly upgraded, is not broken. Evolution is no myth.
Quote:Interesting. Maybe God created the capacity to do evil. Then again, it depends on how you define good. In my view (yes view ;D), evil is simply the privation of good. In other words, there is no such thing as evil per se, rather, evil is the absence of good (kind of like how darkness is the absence of light).Eh, this is only views and a comparison of evil and good as they pertain to a dictionary. We are talking about their theological references are we not?
