(March 26, 2014 at 11:08 pm)snowtracks Wrote:(March 26, 2014 at 9:22 am)Tonus Wrote: That makes sense. The question is, did he create smallpox from the very beginning, or at some later point?
from a resource prospective: disease, wars, and famine control population.
again, earth and universe weren't designed for ultimate perfection. God's plan doesn't include keeping all pain, suffering, and all expression of sin from coming into existence; the garden of eden wasn't secured under lock and key. if sin (which grow into evil) and its effect continued forever, then there would be a real cogent argument against God's nature and even His existence, but both physical and mental suffering is temporary.
The all-powerful couldn't produce a perfect universe, or chose not to, thereby allowing suffering, until God allows you to be sent to hell, for an eternity of suffering in agony by the evil God allows.
(March 26, 2014 at 11:08 pm)snowtracks Wrote: [quote='Tonus' pid='635360' dateline='1395840155']also there's human involvement like 1) improper hygiene - God laid out health law practices and instructions for quarantines in leviticus. 2) making poor choices or engaging in sinful behavior which has consequences including disease.
free will has cost and benefits.
Smallpox: It's your fault, sinner.