RE: "God has morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil"
December 11, 2013 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2013 at 9:50 am by LostLocke.)
(December 11, 2013 at 1:01 am)Freedom of thought Wrote: I'm not talking about a god stopping human beings from doing evil things, I think that has been pretty much done and dusted, even if it's still questionable. I'm talking about natural suffering/evil, which is why I talked about malaria for example. The existence of just one unnecessary case of suffering logically contradicts any modern ideas of an all powerful deity, and I think malaria is the perfect example. Is it that hard for a god to make a world without these blatant issues? From what I can see, we're living in a universe which looks exactly how it should be if there were no god.Don't things like malaria, cancer, and other diseases and natural causes of suffering just come the umbrella apology of "The Fall"?
I've heard often times that these are just the result of original sin, and the whole world being corrupted by it. Even though, it's hard to picture why other animals, plants, and even inanimate minerals would become corrupted by something that only involved two humans and a fallen angel.
But either way, these were things that never needed to be explained in the first place, since technically god didn't create them to start with.