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If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
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RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too
(January 24, 2017 at 9:44 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(January 23, 2017 at 2:50 pm)Godschild Wrote:


How do you 'know' that this God you are familiar with is omniscient?

I haven't found Him lacking in any knowledge, and the One who created the universe must be all knowing to accomplish such a thing especially speaking it into existence.

GC

(January 23, 2017 at 4:21 am)Godschild Wrote:


Jormungandr Wrote:Is rape really the opposite of respect? That seems like a forced antonymy. There are a lot of things lacking in the rapist, but the defining feature of the rapist is their willingness to commit such a heinous act. This is not a deficit but a surplus. I know you're taught this 'evil is the lack of good' line, but it quite frankly doesn't make any sense. Nor does it resolve what is the nature of neutral actors. They lack good, so are they evil? Nonsense.

Many things could be the opposite of respect, if the man respects the woman there's no way he's going to rape her. Any person who has respect for another has an allies on there side to keep them from committing crimes against another.
I used respect because it is something that exists through learning about others and it encompasses many other things that could have been mentioned.
I'm not sure you understood my position on the lack of good or the lack of evil. Good and evil are just words, they both need actions to define them and those action will be opposed to each other. When God said at the end of each day of creation, "it is very good," He was speaking of His action of creation, He was enjoying all that He had done. It wasn't because there was no evil action, because up to that point only God would have known what evil really was, evil did not even exist it wasn't even a concept because nothing in creation had any idea of what it was or that it could exist.
If one believes that evil is the lack of good then the opposite would have to be true and like I stated above God called the creation good because He created it perfectly, not because there was no evil.

GC

(January 24, 2017 at 11:02 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Jesus was a liar or not one person in the history of humanity has ever really believed in Jesus because no one has ever done what he said a true believer who does not have any doubts about him can easily do.

What would that be?

GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: If God created all the good things around us then it means he created all EVIL too - by Godschild - January 25, 2017 at 1:03 am

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