11-02-2011, 12:00 AM
Guess what, 'Mother Nature' or 'God' didn't stop those tortures either. And how many innocent deaths has 'Mother Nature' caused?
Either there is a God and free will, or there is no purpose to life and every thing is an accident and meaningless (or something else, enlighten me).
The only way I can imagine a 'good' God allowing evil is...
if that allowing of potential evil actually creates the potential for greater good! In order to truly have free will this automatically creates the option that some may choose 'evil' or that which is not good and love.
Without allowing for the potential for evil then there is no free will, and we are just robots with no choice.
Look at it from an all-wise eternal viewpoint, what is God's endgame? In the grand scheme of things, if the final product is an eternity of a golden age of utopian perfection (or some other supreme value), what would a few thousand or million years of relative hell (human injustice and tragedy) be compared to that, would it be worth it?
Please sincerely look at this.
Either there is a God and free will, or there is no purpose to life and every thing is an accident and meaningless (or something else, enlighten me).
The only way I can imagine a 'good' God allowing evil is...
if that allowing of potential evil actually creates the potential for greater good! In order to truly have free will this automatically creates the option that some may choose 'evil' or that which is not good and love.
Without allowing for the potential for evil then there is no free will, and we are just robots with no choice.
Look at it from an all-wise eternal viewpoint, what is God's endgame? In the grand scheme of things, if the final product is an eternity of a golden age of utopian perfection (or some other supreme value), what would a few thousand or million years of relative hell (human injustice and tragedy) be compared to that, would it be worth it?
Please sincerely look at this.