The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.

[Randy Carson]

Ahh...Theodicy again. The thing that will never go away.  

Not before the assertion that evil and suffering disprove God's existence disappears, at least.

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Now, if babies are raped as a consequence of God's decision to give us free will, the responsibility for the rape still falls on the person who chooses to commit that act because other options were available to that person.

Other options were available to an omniscient God besides creating someone He KNEW was going to do evil.  

If God never created anyone who did not do evil or commit some offense against others or Him, He never would have created anyone at all.

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First, God has no wants or needs. He is perfect in and of Himself.

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If that were true, God would never have created anything.  He would not create if he did not want to create.  Indeed, he would not do anything, if he did not want to do anything.

Therefore, since God (as described in the Bible) does various things, God does want things.  And, as you rightly point out, that means he must not be perfect, or he would not have created anything.

I'm using "want" here in the sense that God is lacking or wanting for something. He is not.

In the sense that He wills things to happen, sure...He "wants" them to happen for our benefit. But not because he is making up for something missing in His own life

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Other options were available to an omniscient God besides creating someone He KNEW was going to do evil.  

I don't know about that.  "God" comes across as something of a putz in that fucking bible.  He's always surprised or saddened when his plans don't work out right.  Shouldn't he know in advance that he fucked up?  For that matter, why wouldn't he do something different?

Why is god such a shlemiel?

Since you seem familiar with the text, why not quote the passage that seems to represent your view best?

Then we will have something a bit more specific to discuss.