(May 23, 2013 at 10:13 am)John V Wrote:(May 23, 2013 at 8:58 am)little_monkey Wrote: You don't have to, but what if you were to leave a loaded gun in a room full of children, and one those children took the gun and kill someone, I'm quite sure you would be criminally charged.Hardly. A more apt analogy would be that I created some robots and allowed one to talk another into breaking a rule I had set for them.
God is in that position in regard to his creation, omnibenevolent or not.
I wasn't thinking of the bible, which is a totally christian thing, but thanks anyway for this "apt" analogy.