“So in your viewpoint, Hitler was the man that God intended him to be?”
Yes, I do. I can’t imagine God having someone appear before him and His saying, “When I made you I had such high hopes, but you fell far short of what I wanted, so I’m going to punish you forever.” That sounds too much like a failure of God to own up to his own shortcomings as the creator.
As far as Hitler goes, there was nothing particularly evil about him, compared to many of the ruffians and assorted racists hooligans that you meet every now and then. The harm came from the willingness of the German people to embrace his view of the world, and wholeheartedly carry out his most terrible policies. Without tens of millions of Germans behind him, Hitler would have been inconsequential. They were as guilty as him.
So instead, you think God creates evil people, then punishes them for being evil?
Where is it that you get thsi vision of the Creator? What is your source of knowledge about him that leads you to this conclusion?
Not to badger you, but why haven’t you answered my question? Perhaps you missed it, or thoughtit was a gotcha question. I’m just interested to see how you arrived at your conclusions.
Let me rephrase it. You say you can’t imagine God following a certain course of action. Well, to know God’s character and how likely or unlikely it is that He would do something, you’d need to have information about Him. So, what is your source of information about God? What facts lead you to believe that He doesn’t ever punish His creations (or that He makes people evil) and what is the source of those facts?