RE: IF GOD EXISTS, THEN HE CERTAINLY DOES NOT CARE FOR YOU AT ALL
December 18, 2012 at 7:54 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2012 at 7:55 pm by Ryantology.)
(December 18, 2012 at 3:54 am)clemdog14 Wrote: From my understanding however, God did not create evil. He created everything and called it "good." It was only when the good was misused that it became "evil." I see that God created it as the "capacity" for evil to exist.
For instance, I have the opportunity to do an evil. I can go and punch a baby. If I do it, I have done an evil, however, before doing so I had the capacity to create this evil. The evil did not exist per se before I punched the baby, however, there was still the capacity to do this evil.
Maybe it is the same way with God. God does not create evil, rather, he gives us free will and when we wish to commit evil God grants this capacity because if he did not allow this capacity, he would be violating our free will.
How would he be doing this? If he did not grant this opportunity, he would be restraining our free will. Therefore, God allows evil because of our free will.
There is no such thing as 'free will' when the options are
1. Do exactly as you are told
2. Suffer forever in fire and misery
It is not 'free will' if any use of it condemns you to eternal suffering.
How do you square your idea that God is not responsible for the existence of evil with the fact that, in the Bible, he gives direct orders to people commanding them to commit evil acts, and in many cases commits the evil himself, in which the only involvement humans contribute is suffering and dying indiscriminately?
