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Search results for query: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

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  1. Tomef

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Conversion to (usually) wasted fertiliser.
  2. PearlSeeker

    These answers to the problem of evil are unsatisfactory to me

    The problem of evil means that the existence of evil is a problem for the existence of omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. Logically evil, omnipotence and omnibenevolence cannot coexist. This concerns both natural and moral evil. Natural evil - because God could have designed a world without...
  3. We Never Know

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Dead people don't talk therefore no one knows.
  4. Evangelicalhumanist

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Are your views based on anything that you actually know, or have experienced? Or does your scenario just sound like something you'd really like to happen? It has always seemed to me that much of religion is based on the a desperate attempt to deny the (to me) obvious fact that our life -- and...
  5. Sgt. Pepper

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Of course, you can speculate and believe whatever you want about the afterlife. In my experience, some religious people like to claim that they know what will happen in the afterlife, but in my opinion, they're merely speculating, just like everyone else. Even within the same religion, people...
  6. Stevicus

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Interesting speculation. I suppose anything is possible, although I never could get my head around the idea of Hell. The idea of Hell implies that a teenage boy looking at a Playboy magazine deserves the exact same eternal torment as a mass murderer. Another thing that comes to mind is that...
  7. ChristineM

    What really happens to you after you die...

    When we die our brain dies, with it our mind... Following the first law of thermodynamics... Our physical bodies decompose to molecules and eventually, atoms. The atoms are reused (nature being the ultimate in recycling)... One use is, they are used by new life to grow and may turn up in...
  8. InChrist

    What really happens to you after you die...

    Is there something you are interested in debating or discussing or are you just sharing your own thoughts and ideas about what happens after death? I was born again to new, eternal life in Christ more than thirty years ago. I have never felt gladness at the thought of someone suffering in...
  9. dfnj

    What really happens to you after you die...

    I think when you die you are compelled to make a choice. First, you can decide to go into the light, look into the face of God, time stops, and you experience heavenly bliss for all eternity. And second, you decide you are not worthy, for whatever reason, and you turn away from the light. At...
  10. Brian2

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    A&E story shows that humans wanted to be free to choose their own path even when we know God is going to judge us. The bigger picture has also angels who have chosen to go their own way also. It is all God's creation and God has chosen His way of getting rid of evil in His creation and it...
  11. Copernicus

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Yes, because the future is undetermined from the perspective of the person making the choices. My problem with your putative deity is that he freely chooses to punish his creations for making choices he doesn't want them to make but could prevent them from making. But, if God lacks free will...
  12. 9-10ths_Penguin

    What "if" you are wrong

    Correct. It's what I said. That's just one narrow case of the larger question: why are the actions of an "all-powerful and all-knowing" God entirely consistent with God not existing at all? Why doesn't God prevent evil? Ultimately, it's because that would imply the existence of a God that...
  13. an anarchist

    Assumptions and inductions about the (metaphysical) world.

    TLDR: Is it possible to arrive at metaphysical truths through inductive reasoning? Is it in fact neccesary to use inductive reasoning? Science aside, what can we hypothesize about the world and the metaphysics of it? I mean, spirituality and religion is more than just guesswork. Some people...
  14. Hermit Philosopher

    What is God's highest priority?

    From a physical (material/ manifested/ incarnated/ human) point of view, your statement is valid and to many, that is how it is: either there is no “god” or there is one and it’s evil. But there are many other ways of thinking about this. For example, from a metaphysical perspective: if one...
  15. Estro Felino

    God is love and just

    God is not Omnipotent. He can't prevent anyone from doing evil. Unfortunately the Romans mistranslated the word Pantokrator that means the one who rules over everything. But they used Omnipotens (Almighty) and they should have used the Latin word Omniregens instead.
  16. Tinkerpeach

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    There are plenty of people who you consider good that have no problem walking into their backyard and spraying RAID on an ant colony causing tens of thousands of creatures to suffer and die a horrible death. “But they are just dumb ants”, you claim Well we are far closer to an ant then we will...
  17. Viker

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    I've pointed out in the past that science doesn't get into the business of investigating God or gods existence. It could be that god is so incoherently defined that they don't know where to start. It could be that it is a presumption and unfalsifiable... scientists likely overlook such things to...
  18. muhammad_isa

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    What does that even mean .. "directly choose" ? No evil, no test. No test, no appreciation of what it even means. Negative thinking.. satan only wishes to sow doubt .. to divert us from a path of righteousness. G-d does not wish us to choose evil over good .. but He allows it .. not for ever...
  19. It Aint Necessarily So

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    ...evils into the world. Such a god cannot be tri-omni. As Epicurus noted, “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why...
  20. InChrist

    Theists, please tell me why you believe murder is wrong.

    I thought about addressing some of your questions and other points, like; “why would God harden Pharaoh's heart” or “why would God create homosexuals”, but on second thought since you’ve repeatedly stated your view that the biblical accounts are nothing but mythology, why bother? If you think...
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