I find it interesting that this thread gets so little response from the theists. But just to keep it alive
I recieved an email yesterday from a base chaplain. This is a quote from that correspondance.
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God, by definition, is all powerful. He can do anything He wants to do. He is also Eternal and not bound by time, so He can see the end from the beginning. He knows what you and I will go through, He knows what will work best for us, and He has planned a best route for our life.
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Since I don't want to get into a philosophical debate with my base chaplain, I thought I would ask the questions I had for him here on this thread.
It seems to me that if this all powerful god who knows everything and can do anything he wants to do, as this chaplain contends, what could possibly be his reasoning behind the virus that causes AIDS, cancer or any other disease for that matter. I only bring up AIDS because it has NOT been in existance since the beginnings of humankind. Therefore, somewhere along the way, this all powerful god decided that we DIDN'T have enough death, pain and suffering on this planet and introduced or allowed the introduction of a virus that as of yet has a 100% lethality rate. The only answer in my opinion is that there does not exist any god that cares about the fate of the human species.