Correct, however I think that if it is understood in the way that a secular person thinks about free will, it would look like sadism. In fact I can understand that anything theological would seem like sadism to a secularized person because of how they view a human being, they interpret the Word...
kiwimac
Thats true, there is no justification for evil, as evil is being understood (by us). However the story is an allegory about why there are things happening in the world wich we think are disagreeable to our sensibilities on what we think is good or bad. The story can be interpreted both...
Let me retract what I formerly stated, as if it would be an opinion of fact. God created man, but thats it. He didnt make him perfect. Only God is perfect. And God has a plan for his creation, and we can not know it. What seems to us to be vicious, meaningless and cruel, is so only because we...
God created man spiritually perfect, and made him a moral creature. But man fell from grace as a consequence of choosing the pleasures that sin would offer. Sin is a sickness of the soul and acts like a barrier between our world and Gods world. Its a disease that makes a relationship with God...
Mestemia
Dr Justin Barrett has done several studies on childrens views on God and spirituality. Its a short article about it in The Telegraph called "Children are born believers".
challupa
Thanks! Oh no, I dont pretend to have achieved anything. And I am certainly not arguing for being a...
Hello forum , this is my first post here. I wonder if anyone read the study done on children and religiousness? Anyway the conclusion the study came to was that human beings have a tendency to think in a religious way, that it is more common to think religiously than to think in a secularized...