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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. Valjean

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

    The Biblical accounts are often unevidenced. They're mythology. Even if true, they reflect an evil God commanding a psychopathic, rapacious, imperialist society. Have you no conscience? Have you no personal morals? Have you no compassion? Does your God not value these things? If a nation did...
  2. Thrillobyte

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    Wait a second, Trail. Most of these 5 million kids are dying of diseases that GOD brought about. Humans have nothing to do with it. Full blame lands on God's doorstep. Nor can humans do a thing about the natural disasters that kill millions of people every decade whose responsiblity also lands...
  3. Trailblazer

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    If you want to hate God that is your choice, as I said in my previous post, but don't pretend it is based upon logic and reason. It is based upon sheer emotion, that is all it is based upon. "Mommy, you did not give me my cookie so I hate you mommy!" God plays no games, it is only humans...
  4. Thrillobyte

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    If God is able to prevent evil on an abused 3 year old who is daily being raped and tortured but simply stands by and watches it without doing something, then God is the most evil entity in the universe--worse than Satan ever thought of being. I have more respect for Satan since he doesn't pla...
  5. Trailblazer

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    God is able but not willing to prevent evil, since God wants humans to prevent their own evil since they are the cause of evil. Why should God prevent what humans cause? "Because God is omnipotent" is not an answer. God could also eliminate all life on earth in a heartbeat "because God is...
  6. Spiderman

    Meadow Jade Pollack, Parkland Messiah!

    This is a journal. It is not a blog. Try not to see it as preaching, proselytizing, but venting, not seeking converts, but maybe insights?. The first post is angry, emotional. But I have been to hell and back, and I found a miracle worker, who had enormous potential, wanted to be a lawyer...
  7. Treasure Hunter

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    It’s the first one. He has the potential to be all powerful but is currently being overpowered by the enemy, which is why he sends the best part of himself, his son, into the world in order to find a way to do his will.
  8. Starlight

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    Most of evil on this planet earth is because of humans. God gave humans free will. starvation could stop tomorrow if all humans cooperated. I believe God gave us free will because God is loving. God do not want someone to be forced to love him. I also believe this life is also a test. Like a...
  9. Jimmy

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    This is weird.
  10. Valjean

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    “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?" -- Epicurus.
  11. Brian2

    What is the Difference?

    There might be a variety of reasons. The Bible tells of a God who has set up a time for evil to be finished with completely and for judgement to happen and to set up His Kingdom on earth. So it is not that God has no plan to do anything, things are heading that way. God seems to step in at...
  12. PearlSeeker

    What is the Difference?

    Some evil just happens as a natural process but if (omnibenevolent and omnipotent) God exists, it is certainly within His power to prevent such things. Why isn't He?
  13. It Aint Necessarily So

    Suffering and evil

    I am saying that gratuitous suffering occurs - suffering that does the sufferer no good. I know that for a fact. And I know that relieving that suffering is an act of compassion. You are asking others to believe that that might not be correct even though I am certain that you live by that idea...
  14. Trailblazer

    Suffering and evil

    Although scriptures do not use the word omnibenevolent, God is omnibenevolent by definition: Omnibenevolent (of a deity) possessing perfect or unlimited goodness. what does omnibenevolent mean - Google Search God is also Omniscient so that means that God knows everything. Thus, it logically...
  15. idea

    Suffering and evil

    Exactly. If you drop one or more of those qualities, I would argue "God" ceases to be God.
  16. It Aint Necessarily So

    Suffering and evil

    ...century BC, who, regarding the existence of gratuitous suffering, asked, "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...
  17. Erebus

    Suffering and evil

    Like I said earlier, if God isn't omnibenevolent then the problem of evil/suffering doesn't apply. However, I was responding to what you said here: You said there was no reason to think an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God wouldn't allow suffering. I explained why I disagree. If you...
  18. muhammad_isa

    Suffering and evil

    Why are you equating mortality with suffering? It is quite obvious why we suffer from being burnt .. it doesn't follow that God wants us to suffer unnecessarily. All you are doing, is suggesting that God could have made a "better world". I have no reason to believe that any other than God could...
  19. Erebus

    Suffering and evil

    I think for the existence of suffering to work alongside the idea of an omnibenevolent God, you would need to be able to show that suffering is either beneficial to us or unavoidable. It would be difficult to argue that all examples of suffering are beneficial to us but I could certainly see a...
  20. Trailblazer

    Suffering and evil

    There is absolutely no reason to think that if a an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God existed there would be no suffering, since there is no reason to think that God would prevent suffering, just because some people don't like it. We evolved in such a way that we're capable of...
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