(April 24, 2013 at 4:22 am)Esquilax Wrote:We went from talking about God's creating evil to Him being responsible for it. It seems we're in agreement, then, that God need not contain evil for evil to exist, and that sin need not come from outside the universe. It remains a possibility that God is perfectly good. Of course you can still blame Him for evil, but only to the degree that you blame a teacher for letting her students get Fs when they don't study--it's still humanity's fault.(April 24, 2013 at 4:09 am)Undeceived Wrote: Sin/evil refers to a bad relationship between two (possibly good) things. Please explain to me how one creates such a relationship. I can see how it is possible to create the capacity or choice for such a relationship, but the relationship itself?Beyond that, if you've got a god responsible for the creation of everything that exists, then by necessity he created sin even if it is a conceptual thing. If he created the capacity for sin to occur then he's responsible for it when it does;
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