Homosexuality is a sin? Well, Xtians, what about these other 76 things?

[John V]

That's illogical. If conscience is less than absolutely persuasive, law is required. If conscience is absolutely persuasive, there is no free will.

I purposefully did not suggest an absolutely persuasive conscience for precisely that reason. Just one which is far more difficult to ignore.

Again, if it's less than absolutely persuasive, law is required.

It's kind of beside the point, though, because that passage assumes that the conscience is sort of like an innate form of God's law.

I also included the passage on being judged according to your own judgment, which works even if the person's conscience is far removed from god's law.

I discount it because it assumes that God could not have come up with a way to impress goodness upon people without evil.

Oh, I know the drill. It's interesting that in another context an atheist slips up and uses the argument.

It also calls into question the assertion that God desires to destroy evil; would that not make it impossible to recognize God's supposedly absolute goodness?

No, as all beings would have known evil. No new babies in heaven ya know.

And, if God's goodness is absolute, why does he seem so evil to me even with evil in the world?

Because men are evil, but most don't want to admit it.