RE: Why did god allow people to be born after the fall ?
November 7, 2017 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2017 at 3:26 pm by Harry Nevis.)
(November 7, 2017 at 2:59 pm)SteveII Wrote:(November 7, 2017 at 2:29 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote: Why does free will entail a sinful world? Because god created sin. And, supposedly, he knows what the outcome will be. If he knows I will never become a believer, and knew before I was born, I have no control.No, free will created sin. Sin is the absence of good. Just like no one created darkness.
Foreknowledge in no way means control. The fact that you won't choose differently does not mean you couldn't have. God simply knows what every free creature would choose and would not choose (counterfactuals) to do in any given circumstances. There are different theological perspectives and I am arguing/answering from my own.
If he knows I will repent on my deathbed, and I don't, either he didn't know or he was wrong.
Since god created good,and he (and he admits it) created evil, he is responsible for the existence of sin.
Sin is the absence of good only to you guys. It doesn't exist outside if the bible.
(November 7, 2017 at 3:22 pm)alpha male Wrote: I did tell you, in the last post.
No, you didn't.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam