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re: Do you believe in Evolution?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:24 am to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:24 am to Roger Klarvin
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A truly benevolent God cannot exist in the same universe as starvation, molestation, murder, influenza and ebola.
Except that God is under no obligation to keep us from suffering. Who are we to prescribe what God should and shouldn't do?
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:28 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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Except that God is under no obligation to keep us from suffering. Who are we to prescribe what God should and shouldn't do?
I feel you. We can't fully understand "his will."
But to me he feels kinda arbitrary and unfair--and unjust.
A 6 year old with Leukemia . . this challenges my ability to believe more than anything.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:30 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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Except that God is under no obligation to keep us from suffering.
Of course he isn't, but a benevolent God is by definition.
God may very well exist, and I have no issues with the idea of his existence, but if he does exist and he created us in any capacity than any beliefs about morality that we hold are either directly or indirectly because of him. Because of this, we must assume that God either does not care what happens to us as individuals, that his morality matches ours but he is simply incapable of helping us or that he is malevolent in nature.
A benevolent God who is also all-powerful creating benevolent beings in an inherently malevolent universe is a contradiction not logically resolvable by human consciousness.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 12:32 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 12:38 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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Who are we to prescribe what God should and shouldn't do?
If God created us, he created our consciousness, our morals and our ability to reason. Our logical consciousness must therefore be the basis by which we judge any idea of God. If we are wrong and we meet a different idea of God when we die, we must first ask "why"?
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 12:41 am
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