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Quote by: JaneDoe321  Actually, "evil" and "good" are tremendously subjective terms and I don't believe they exist "Unto Themselves" in the world.
You said earlier that storms were evil. Didn't god supposedly put the laws of physics into place by creating everything? That's at least indirect creation of evil? Unless storms are somehow physical manifestations of the lack of god, which I am having serious trouble understanding... |
Yeah. I don't think it would make sense to say a storm is a physical manifestation of a lack. How can nothing materially manifest? We would have to avoid saying natural disasters are evil because then even Augustine's comment that God is so good and powerful that He can bring Good from Evil would be useless because He would be the one creating the evil in the first place. I think it would be better to say the pain that storms cause is evil (or bad) but it is necessary if we are to have pleasure (i.e. if we are to be sensible).
However, I am with you that evil and good are human conceptions that would not exist if we were not here to conceive them. But because we are here they do exist, if as nothing else but a conception, which gives it practical existence because we still feel it.