If God is good, why does he permit evil to exist?
If God is good, why does he permit evil to exist?
Blake Roberts
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Anthony Campbell
>not this meme question again
Evan Wilson
>inb4 muh free will
Adam Roberts
1- fuck off
2- good cannot exist without evil, if everything was good all the time nobody would value it/see it as good we'd just see it as normal and "the way things are" plus free will is the greatest gift of all
3- pic related is OP
4- not history
Jaxon Rodriguez
Why did God create cockroaches? Seriously. Why create such disgusting, vile little creatures? At least Zoroastrianism has the excuse that Ahriman created all the nasty animals.
Hudson Smith
And Humanities user
Although I do wish we could limit the religion and communism threads to 1 thread each, get some more philosophy in here
Henry Hill
>God is humanities
Christopher Campbell
Balance.
Carson Powell
why is there more matter than anti-matter in the universe tho?
Xavier Hughes
>"Bone cancer in children? What's that about?"
Justin Howard
because evil is cool af and variety is tite
Hudson Myers
>god is omnipotent
>cant make me do shit
what do Christians mean by this?
Robert Murphy
>if everything was good all the time nobody would value it/see it as good
Heaven must suck then.
Parker Richardson
He doesn't permit it.
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Aaron Gray
Looking at this makes me itchy.
Evan Phillips
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Adam Taylor
did you read my post? I said he doesn't permit evil
Elijah Wood
Why can't God be a malevolent, jealous, selfish entity?
This is the way the Jews originally envisioned Him. Just read the Old Testament.
Luis Miller
Because we can't experience true goodness without also experiencing suffering and evil XDDDD
Ian Long
>what is theology
>what is philosophy
weww
Jason Clark
And yet evil exists. So God either permits it, or he is incapable of preventing it.
Kayden Wilson
Nah. Earth is the bad you compare heaven to.
Also you can see hell from heaven.
(John 5:39-47)
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Alexander Reyes
God(s) can indeed be evil you atheist cuck.
See:
Sumerian Gods
Aztec Gods
Old Testament God
Some Greek Gods
Hittite Gods
Etcetera
Jack Gray
evil is good
Landon Smith
Evil exists because of human action. God absolves this evil by offering salvation.
Christian Reed
Why not just do that to all the evil, then?
Dylan Parker
Evil is relative tbqh famicom
Petty human morality doesn't apply to God, much like human concepts of time.
Nathan Powell
Wew that picture spooked me
Luke Butler
Jews weren't polytheist until Moses came along and then he fucked things up.
Tyler Perez
If God is omnipotent, He can literally avoid it being physically possible.
Michael Johnson
You misspelled Allah.
Thomas James
>cherrypicking
include constantine's battles and all other christian conquests against pagans
Luke Hill
If human morality doesn't apply to God, why should we listen to God on matters of morality? How can we say that God is good?
Aaron Fisher
The short, non-meme answer is that evil is simply the absence of good. Thus, God did not create evil, but "evil" filled in the cracks where God did not mandate good.
The longer answer is here:
en.wikipedia.org
The longest answer is to actually read Maimonides.
Isaiah Richardson
So why didn't God mandate good everywhere?
Adam Long
>2017
>People STILL can't understand the concept of free will
Christopher Sullivan
>gays existed before god
Jacob Taylor
because he can beat you up