To: NYer
If there is a god, he sure likes torturing us with evil.
6 posted on
06/11/2013 3:46:19 PM PDT by
deadrock
To: deadrock
Naw. He’s the One who showers you with blessing in a world of sinners who like torturing you with evil.
11 posted on
06/11/2013 3:53:01 PM PDT by
MarDav
To: deadrock
He loves you so much that He left heaven, took on human form, suffered horribly and died on the cross for you. Then He left the tomb three days later to save you from an eternity of torture.
20 posted on
06/11/2013 4:50:48 PM PDT by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
To: deadrock
If there is a god, he sure likes torturing us with evil. Evil exists. What makes you think that if God that would mean He likes it?
If there's no God, where do you get your concept of good and evil?
22 posted on
06/11/2013 4:52:30 PM PDT by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: deadrock
If there is a god, he sure likes torturing us with evil.
If there's a brain inside your head, it sure likes torturing us with non sequiturs.
28 posted on
06/11/2013 5:00:49 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: deadrock
34 posted on
06/11/2013 5:12:27 PM PDT by
Raycpa
To: deadrock
-— If there is a god, he sure likes torturing us with evil. -—
The only significant argument against the existence of God is The Problem of Evil. Yet evil is problematic for both sides, since actual, objective evils cannot be accounted for in a universe reduced to matter in motion.
By simply stating the problem, one is conceding the existence of evil and good, neither of which is explainable by random movement.
Yet the existence of evil can be rationally reconciled with the existence of a good God. Below is the best, short essay I have read on the subject.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm
To: deadrock
God is creative, and as the image and likeness of God, we must have free will as God does. When we misuse the power of free will, when we insist on pursuing ideas that are harmful to us, or even trying to create something when it is not time for that thing, we see what we call evil. Evil is not god-ordained. "But you may ask, Why would an Almighty Power and a Divine Intelligence permit such possible disaster? This is something that you and I have no control over. God, or the Creative Genius of the universe, has placed this prerogative in the mind of man through giving him volition and choice. God Himself could not will it otherwise. For, if there is to be a valid choice, it must be accompanied by the possibility of more than one thing to choose." -- Dr. Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called You
79 posted on
06/12/2013 12:55:52 PM PDT by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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