(March 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm)robvalue Wrote: Is this guy meant to only have our happiness as his concern and avoid us ever suffering?
If no, job done. He's a cunt.
So, your parents are "cunts" then? I guarantee you that at some point in your development, your parents let you suffer because ultimately it taught you a lesson, if only to let you know that suffering existed and was an actual thing you'd have to deal with.
If you eradicate suffering, then happiness becomes meaningless, because you have nothing to compare it to.
Quote:If yes, he could have done things differently but didn't. Epic fail, he brought about needless suffering contrary to his MO.
His MO was to create humans with free will, so that they wouldn't be mindless drones. By giving humans free will, humans brought suffering into the world. That's Christian doctrine.
There was no suffering in the Garden of Eden. Adam & Eve ate the fruit (act of free will), lost their innocence, and brought suffering into the world.
Sure, if God had made it so that no human could choose evil, then we'd have no evil, but we'd also be mindless drones, unable to have any real choice over our actions. We'd be completely under God's control, which is exactly what he *didn't* want.