[RoosterRedux]

When people ask why God permits evil, I tell them that he can easily take evil away...he just has to take away everyone's ability to sin (i.e., free will). Then I ask, "How about it, would you be willing to give up your free will?" "Would you be willing to become a robot...and live on a planet of robots?"

I get a lot of blank stares with that one.

[alexander_busek]

I get a lot of blank stares with that one.

Not from me. My response: In an instant!

The possibility of eternal suffering would thus be removed in one fell-swoop!

How could one not choose that?

But still doesn't answer the problem of all that "pesky" suffering due to natural catastrophes. (One poster here - Fai Mao - has even gone so far as to declare that natural catastrophes have nothing to do with "sin" or "Free Will." In other words: God could have given us the capacity of Free Will, even if we misused it, and sinned - but he need never have allowed natural catastrophes.)

Regards,

[daniel1212]

When people ask why God permits evil, I tell them that he can easily take evil away...he just has to take away everyone's ability to sin (i.e., free will). Then I ask, "How about it, would you be willing to give up your free will?" "Would you be willing to become a robot...and live on a planet of robots?" I get a lot of blank stares with that one.

Yet the BORG is what many imagine as preferable. Fo football for them.