| ListerOfSmeg said: If you never know pain, you cannot appreciate happiness. It really is that simple. Also if God stopped a person from robbing a bank, how could he then punish that person for something they never did? Many scientist now admit that there must be a God or grand creator. The Bible seemed to do a pretty good job of describing how we now know the universe formed though in simple terms for simple minded people. Also blaming a natural disaster on our creator is silly. He didn't make you move next to a volcano or into Tornado alley. When I lost my daughter did I blame God or the incompetent Doctor who let it happen? I chose to blame the Doctor instead of the being that made it possible for me to be here and to have a chance to have a child. It is amusing though to see post from people who fail to comprehend even the basics but act like they know everything there is to know when it comes to religion. Also amusing when people act like Christianity is the only option even though there are many other options. Which I also think our creator understood us enough to know that we as humans wouldn't accept 1 option let alone 2 so he gave us many and that is why most religions at their core all teach the same thing. |
You might want to go look up some writings by Chesteron. He ended up trying to look at crtitics of Christianity. He said he got confused, because a handful would be critical of it for one reason, and another handful would be critical of it for exactly opposite reasons. In trying to find answers, and not just rebel as its own ends, he ended up becoming a strong convert to Christianity.
A lot of issues involved with the evil side of things is that people get upset at context that defines things. Should we have a world, for example, where knives don't cut? But put the knife in another context cutting and it can do harm. Same with the said robbing of a bank. So, is God supposed to then stop people leaving banks with money? But it is a robbery. So I guess maybe God is supposed to engineer matter to tell the difference and act accordingly, or going into every single situation where it happens and stops it.
