(March 29, 2013 at 7:25 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Being that Baazls response was to Tex, who is comfortable with god creating satan......you're actually "challenging" them both. That's a pretty generous way of describing your interaction with either, but I'm feeling generous.
I, like you, am comfortable with your god not having created satan - we'll just add it to the list of all the shit your god didn't create. Whether or not your god created satan is irrelevant as to why you are arguing that he didn't. Even if he did, you would still argue otherwise. It's all about an excuse, clearly, in this discussion.
I never implied an excuse, I gave an explanation of a loving God that could not have created evil. Though before creation God was not a judge, He had nothing to set as judge over, He became the judge after Lucifer fell to his own self righteousness. My question to anyone who believes God created evil ie. satan, does one create something he would so abhor just to be judge of the very thing he hates? There is no scriptural support for God creating evil. There is substantial support that God could not create anything outside of who He is.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
