(February 16, 2015 at 10:22 am)Tonus Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 1:45 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: In the initial creation account (where 'God created all things' comes from) there were no diseases. He did create them in a different sense later on as a consequence of sin, not of His initial creation which He deemed good.Doesn't that make him seem petulant?
Yes, and it makes him stupid and wrong. If he were right about his creation being good, then it would not have gotten screwed up (because there was nothing that he did not create that could interfere with its actions). If he were omniscient, he would have known how it would go from the beginning. Yet he (according to the story) did it anyway. In other words, he chose the outcome by creating a world that would have this outcome instead of creating one in which there would be a different outcome.
Being the creator of everything makes one responsible for everything.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
