Posted on 05/07/2010 6:57:41 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
What do we mean by professing that G-d is good and man was created in His image? When G-d allows and even causes unbearable pain to befall man, afflicting him with sickness, cruel death, earthquakes and the most horrible wars, there seems little room for these claims. If G-d, by our moral standards, cannot be justified for many of His actions, as we have suggested previously, how are we to revere Him?
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All I am saying is that in creating a universe in which a being with free will is given a moral code, G-d created a situation that makes rebellion, and therefore evil, possible. Evil is not an exnihilation by an evil counterpart of G-d. It is in the sense I have described built into the creation.
If your dogmatic theology insists on a war between a "good god" and an "evil god," then there is no need dialoguing with you further.
If you insist that "things just happen" or that "the devil" controls the weather, then you aren't even a monotheist.
Hey, all I meant to do was post an article by a rabbi. I wasn't trying to start World War III.
Everybody else is chiming in and the thread isn't caucused. You might as well join in.
From the Jewish perspective of the author of the article, the existence of evil is a paradox given God’s goodness and omnipotence.
This is less of a problem for Christians, who allow Satan to be a separate rebellious being instead of the obedient servant that is the Jewish ‘satan’.
Chassidic philosophy goes even farther than traditional Jewish thought, holding that the ONLY true existence is God, meaning that the satan and evil must in some way be ultimately illusory.
All I am saying is that in creating a universe in which a being with free will is given a moral code, G-d created a situation that makes rebellion, and therefore evil, possible. Evil is not an exnihilation by an evil counterpart of G-d. It is in the sense I have described built into the creation.
If your dogmatic theology insists on a war between a "good god" and an "evil god," then there is no need dialoguing with you further.
If you insist that "things just happen" or that "the devil" controls the weather, then you aren't even a monotheist.
Shabbat Shalom ! You surmise incorrectly.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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