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Quote by: JLrep  I really don't see the need for brashly attempting to determine just what quantity of evil gives meaning to what quantity of good, or of the peculiar atom analogy. Where is the neutron, indeed. |
I simply dismantled the argument that opposition is required for existance. That an equal opposition of good and evil is not required to apprecieate either and I used her own analogy to illustrate it.
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No, it all comes down to free will, which I know you are tired of hearing. God made everything good; he did not create evil. He made human beings with free will, and with that free will we decided to sin and turn away from Him. In our sin we tainted all the world with sin. For our sin we deserve nothing but punishment and death, but God in mercy sent Jesus to redeem us of all sin.
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Once again, a flawed theistic agument that free will is the justification of evil. Yes, I am quite tired of hearing it. Your argument asserts that earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, flood, cancer and disease are all a product of free will. It holds that due to Adam and eve's sin, millions die each year of diseases, that millions starve because of drought caused famine, that mothers give birth to deformed children doomed to a life of pain. Furthermore it puts a restriction upon god with no support in claiming that god did NOT create everything in the universe. Its really quite simple:
1. God created everything that exists in the universe (premise)
2. Evil exists in the universe (premise)
3. God created evil (conclusion)
Evil, as I stated in the OP, is not just simply sin, but overall human suffering, which can be divided into two general categories. Physical and moral. So, your argument that it simply all comes down to free will is flawed. Jesus may have redeemed you of sin, but why did he not rescue us from shark attacks, leathaly poisonous reptiles and insects, and a world that survives day by day on the destruction of life?