(August 5, 2012 at 7:54 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Whether the 'tool' is free will or a gun is irrelevant. What is relevant is an omnipotent, omniscient deity's culpability in giving human beings this tool when it would cause such horrible things as a child being ravaged and eventually killed by a horrible disease. When you take into account that the reason he gave us free will was simply so we could choose whether or not to do what he wanted us to, said deity becomes a sadistic bastard. Your god is more concerned with playing games with people's souls than alleviating suffering.Why do you believe suffering is something that God is always obligated to alleviate?
Quote:Absolutely, I would give it up in a second if that meant that no one had to be ravished by cancer, raped, molested, tortured, or murdered. What disturbs me, however, is you seem to be asking this as some kind of 'gotcha' question as if you believed my answer would be no. Which leads me to think that your answer to the question is no.It's not a 'gottcha question.' Either you want to be under the authority and control of God or you do not. This is not a what if question. This is the foundational element of the 'free will' we have been given, so we all may personally answer this question for ourselves. If you do as you say, the surrender/humble yourself to God, accept the attonement offered by Christ, and pray for his Kingdom to come/Pray for the second comming of Christ.
