To: ViLaLuz
(1) If God exists then he is omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good.
(2) If God were omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good then the world would not contain evil.
(3) The world contains evil.
Therefore: (4) It is not the case that God exists.
And if he is neither omniscient, omnipotent, or perfectly good ... who needs him?
18 posted on
02/17/2005 5:29:47 PM PST by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: gcruse
24 posted on
02/17/2005 5:42:00 PM PST by
frogjerk
To: gcruse
Your conclusions do not logically follow.
25 posted on
02/17/2005 5:45:30 PM PST by
Havoc
(Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade. Hang the traitors high)
To: gcruse
If someone only helps us we may like him very well but we will have no idea of whether or not we love him; we only discover that when he harms us and we find it within ourselves to forgive him.
It's a very simple idea: God puts evil in the world to make the knowlege of love possible.
32 posted on
02/17/2005 6:05:39 PM PST by
Grut
To: gcruse
(2) If God were omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good then the world would not contain evil.I think you skipped a step or two here. What is "evil" anyway? Maybe it's good that the world contains evil.
Think a minute. If something is less than "perfectly good", what is the imperfection?
At a hazard, it looks like your argument comes down to "God is allowed to create only God, with respect to perfection."
36 posted on
02/17/2005 6:29:28 PM PST by
Mad Dawg
(My P226 wants to teach you what SIGnify means ...)
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