The problem of evil revisited.

[paulpablo]

I think in an attempt to a find a solution with the problem of evil, it's necessary to invoke the possibility of a afterlife that is perfect and everlasting.

If it is everlasting and of high happiness, in about a trillion years from now for example, any suffering in this world would be made trivial to the experience of bliss of a trillion years. This even more so as it goes on to infinity.

Now the only thing that is required for benevolence of a wise creator is some purpose to the suffering in this world.

Well I think a world where we can build character that comes before a world were we enjoy eternal bliss, is better that no one world at all.

More so, whatever makes the system over all better to character building and moral choosing, is a worthy of a sacrifice of trivial suffering because of an infinite reward that is gained by it (the character building and goodness).

Death would have to have natural causes, and it seems also, that a system were God is not constantly intervening is better then a system that he is intervening. this is because in a world were he constantly intervened, it would be counter productive to character building. It can also be invoked that diversity of intelligent life in the universe is one of the goals of the universe. Evolution therefore perhaps is a natural best way in which God would spread intelligent life in the universe. He would also not constantly interfere in the world as that would go against a better world set for character building and free-will.

I think this solves the issue of the problem of evil. Let me know if there are any flaws.

There's no flaw, but don't you see that it's yet another example of god using a system which from living humans perspective makes it look like there might aswell not be a god.

There's quite a few of these systems in place that god seems to use in all religions.

God writes a book, only he doesn't directly just slam a book down to earth, he tells an angel to tell a man to write it, so basically you might say it could have just been the man who wrote it.

God doesn't stop evil, or stop good people, or promote good people, or promote bad people, in fact he doesn't do anything, you could come to the conclusion that he might just not be there.

He performs all his big important miracles in the past for example turning sticks into snakes, freeing slaves, flooding countries while telling a guy to build a boat, helping people win wars and so on. So you could come to the conclusion that none of that stuff actually happened and it's all just a collection of old myths.

But there's no flaw in believing that he did all this stuff on purpose it just seems unlikely to me.