RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 12:56 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: Just that God made man with free will and not robots.
To truly give free will is to allow man to disobey and reject God.
Even 1/3 the angles who have free will rebelled.
That did not address the question. You claimed that god is justified in punishing everyone for the original sin because if any other person had been there, he would have sinned as well. This points to more than just an issue of free will or bad decision-making. If any human put in that position was guaranteed to fail... per your claim... then they were either designed to fail, or they were presented with a scenario that god knew they could not resist. So... is he a bumbler, or a malicious bastard?
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