>> The two qualities that make us like God are intellect and free will,...
Oh, really? Can Selwyn Duke then advise what’s required to be better than God?
Evil exists and not one conscious ‘intellect’ thinks otherwise. The meaning of ‘evil’ is an issue of semantics and the imaginative formation of its center whether in the soul, the dark of night, or some place in outer space. The descriptive examples used to teach children about good and evil too often become the definitive entities that embody both. In order for evil to exist, does it first need to take physical form as in a violent act? Or, is it enough to think evil thoughts alone, and if such thoughts are never expressed, whose to say evil exists? Are good thoughts the same thing as good deeds? Is it evil to think about helping a victim yet fail to provide real assistance? “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
>> When we look around us at man’s inhumanity to man, it may seem a high price to pay for free will.
In other words, the cost of evil is justified to achieve free will?
One man’s evil is another’s right to free will.
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