RE: The Problem of Evil, Free Will, and the "Greater Good"
April 29, 2013 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2013 at 4:25 pm by Venom7513.)
(April 29, 2013 at 11:08 am)purplepurpose Wrote: God is original GM(game master) He created servers to support game called "matrix" a dramatic play. Where souls only acts like AI in robots.
We are not artificial but original God created intelligence an individual part of his consciousness given free will to serve God. If God consciousness is like a Sun then ours is like a tiny particle of light which Sun gave life to.
At the risk of being Ad Hominem, consider dropping the dose on your LSD. ;-)
While I would love to respond to this objection, I have NO idea what that strange collection of words is supposed to mean.
(April 29, 2013 at 12:12 pm)goodnews Wrote: God is responsible but he is not to blame, there is a differance, Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things. God uses evil, thats why he created Satan or better called our adversary, You see God is still creating us, thats why He put the Tree of Knowledge which held both knowledge of { good and evil } in Eden, We carnal mankind are sinning machines, God had planned for us to sin, how else are we to know what is good if we have no idea what is evil ?? Would you know what is up if you did not know what is down etc: We choose to sin all of us do , we are to blame for our choices, but not responsible, God has it all planned out, think about it, Why else would He send us a Saveior, who by the way Jesus has saved us all not just a few lucky Christians who hold the true doctrins, thats another of there un-scriptual blasphemys.
How can someone be responsible but not to blame? Isn't that exactly what being responsible is?
According to good 'ol Dictionary.com: responsible - Being the primary cause of something and so able to be blamed or credited for it.
But let's ignore the technical definitions for a moment. If I'm understanding you correctly, a man could load a gun knowing that when shot it would kill, put it up to his head, pull the trigger, and be responsible for his death (since it was his plan to kill himself), but still somehow be not to blame (since ultimately it was the gun that killed him). This is absurd in any context that I can comprehend.
Either I'm missing something or your point isn't even self-consistent.
(April 29, 2013 at 12:40 am)Godschild Wrote: Omnibenevolent, this is something non-believers made up so they could have their argument, scripture does not portray God as omnibenevolent. Doing away with this pretense would destroy half of what you argue.
While it's true that it would do away with my argument, it also seems that it would leave the notion of good in crisis. As I mentioned in a previous post, with God, but not as a basis, how can one go about recognizing or even defining good?
