Are you saying that God is the author of evil?
That is a serious charge to level against Him.
“Are you saying that God is the author of evil?”
Well, did he or did he not create everything?
And, is he or is he not all-powerful and thus could he not end evil?
“That is a serious charge to level against Him.”
No, it’s a serious charge against those who refuse to use the God- given gift of logic to uncover the inconsistencies of their beliefs.
Rather, God willfully created a perfect being, with a perfect free will which potentially could become evil, which therefore meant this perfect being, with a perfect free will could make choices, and choose to disobey Good, thus resulting in evil. The latter of which always "existed" as a possibility since if there is Good then by necessity evil must potentially be realized.
Which manifestation God knew of and allowed in His perfect plan, as the omniscient omnipotent author and giver of life, and who alone knows what every single effect will be of a life and even of our next thought, not only for this life and for eternity, who alone can and will make everything work out for what is Good and the good of those who choose Him over sin. (Rm. 8:32) And finite man, who is blind to the Big Picture, is in no position to judge the morality of the actions or inactions of an omnipotent and omniscient Being, and in doing so then man is essentially presuming omniscience.
I have been forced to pay good money to have an official web page designed, because, Google has been deleting some of my old posts. Since the other one is a free blogspot, they have that right. Wokeness has attacked me again. Similar reason I was fired by the newspaper the Enterprise record back in 2012.
So I went with a pay service and an official website. I only posted the excerpt to drive traffic and check all the stats and things. In time I will again go back to posting the full articles.
Yet, in the short 10 hours this post has been up, my tracker tells me approximately 700 people have opened this thread to at least check it out. Whether they read past the title and first paragraph I will never know, however, only 95 have actually visited the web page to read the full article.
I truly wonder how many actually followed the link to read the whole commentary.
If they had I would have expected some who wrote responses agreeing with me to concur, yet I see no responses to a video I posted. My reason for the video is related to my commentary. Anyone who read it would possible see the connection.
Yet, many have opinions they wish to share, and many of those will seldom if ever spend the time to actually read a full article to see if their opinion agrees with the article before writing their opinion. My commentary is in agreement with some interesting comments, which are worded in a way to think I believe otherwise. Or at least eluding to it enough to give them pause. Human nature is interesting, and the nature of FReepers always amazes me when it comes to their opinions, because so often their opinions belie their diligence to see if they agree with what they are responding to before posting their opinions.