RE: Argument from evil, restated
May 23, 2013 at 8:06 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 8:19 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(May 22, 2013 at 11:20 am)Godschild Wrote: I believe through the scriptures and reasoning that God did not create evil, Lucifer brought evil into existence by living outside the will of God. This makes Lucifer responsible for the evil in the creation. I could plant and grow a beautiful garden, which I'm responsible for and then some crazy comes along with a truck and drives through the garden and mess it up.
The difference being that you didn't create the truck with the foreknowledge that it would one day crash into your garden and mess up your tulips.
The whole perspective you've taken puts you in a box. You can't get around it by saying "but Satan!" when satan was a creation of god, you know, the all powerful, all knowing being that, by definition, must have known already what would happen the moment he 'created' satan (it would have actually known it in time immaterial if it's omni-faceted, but w/e).
(May 23, 2013 at 12:28 am)Godschild Wrote: God needs nothing and never has,
Ok.
(May 23, 2013 at 12:28 am)Godschild Wrote: His omni........ takes care of that, He does desire our love for Him and a desire is far different than a need.
How?
What's the difference between "I desire to have sex with my wife" and "I want to have sex with my wife"?