(April 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm)nogodchick Wrote: Can anyone tell me why, if there is a God, he created the world in the first place. It would be a bit self-indulgent of him, surely. Wouldn't he have to be some sort of a power crazed Voyeur to do any of this in the first place? Why would a just and loving God create a world and then watch its creatures suffering for millennium after millennium.
According to the apologists, it's because he's narcissistic, capricious, and has serious self esteem problems. Of course, they would never word it that way, but it is the logical conclusion of the apologetics once they start trying to explain why God allows evil and suffering.
