RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
May 15, 2015 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 9:46 am by Whateverist.)
(May 15, 2015 at 8:34 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 5:51 am)robvalue Wrote: The problem of evil isn't meant to disprove god, it disproves an omniscient, omnipotent omni-benevolent god.
No it doesn't. People who say that generally make the mistake of thinking that the omni-traits allow anything at all to be possible. Omniscient means knowing everything of which it is possible to know. Omnipotent means having the power to achieve any possible goal. And Omni-benevolent mean desirous of producing good to the greatest possible extent.
Sounds reasonable to me. I've tried to challenge the idea that a creator god would have carte blanch control to set the parameters of her creation as she sees fit. Why couldn't there be some underlying substrate which any would be creator god would have to come to grips with to create anything at all? But I'm used to believers insisting god has no constraints and that she makes up all the rules of what is possible as she goes too. As you know, some like to argue the fact that there are a even a few pockets of the universe not entirely hostile to our existence is evidence of a fine tuning god.
(May 15, 2015 at 9:45 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I find an infinite measure of anything to be problematic, which is why I'm very leery of any "omni" claim about anything, including something being 'eternal'.
Oh yeah? Well I'm omni-leery. Checkmate.
