Why does God allow evil?

[Simplelogic]

I have tried to mention the inconistencies in my posts 553 and 554. For more, you can check Google.

not seeing it…but ok.

 

[Christ's Prophet]

You make the assumption that Christianity is true. Under this assumption, you are right. But I would also be right to explain things in terms of blue fairies if I made the assumption that blue fairies existed.
And if you think I am ridiculing God by comparing it to blue fairies, consider that they both have the sane objective evidence of existing. So, why should we consider one more plausible than the other?
Ciao
- viole

My Response,
A solid faith in God is far from an assumption. I have experienced God at work in my life and I don’t doubt Him in anything He says. God is the Creator of this whole universe including you who apparently believes in fairies who created nothing. If you haven’t noticed, this world is a deadly place, nobody gets out of it alive. Fairies won’t be able to help you. To use your words, God is far more plausible than fairies. There is a book which is so easily available in which is a collection of 66 writings and written by over 40 authors who tell of millions of people interacting with God. It is His-story. It is called the Bible. You should read it; I highly recommend it. If you’re looking for the evidence of God, just look at yourself; are you not a miracle of creation? Is it not a miracle that everything in your actually body works? Can you not see a clear design of everything your body is? If there is a design, then there is a Designer? The miracle of creation is also everywhere around you to be seen. You are no accident. Plenty to ponder on. Christ’s prophet. Certainty for eternity.

 

[hayman]

God has done much in this world over the last 6,000 years to combat this evil in the world.

Where did the evil come from?

I never said that God created any entity to "deny his will". This again would mean that God is predestining His creation, which I believe the text disproves. I do believe that He creates beings with the capacity to obey or not.

Did your god make itself completely known to you so that you have absolutely no doubt of its existence?

 

[hayman]

I believe that God has an elaborate team of communicating angels/messengers which inform Him on what is going on.

You do use very simple logic, don't ya?

Do you not know what omniscient means?

God obviously didn't know that Gabriel wouldn't be able to get past the prince of Persia. Once He found out, He dispatched Michael to fix the problem.

Are you for real? Please look up omniscience.

 

[Simplelogic]

Where did the evil come from?

Did your god make itself completely known to you so that you have absolutely no doubt of its existence?

Evil came from a choice to disobey God. It was manifest first by lucifer and his angels, then angels convinced humans to follow them. Evil is not an entity or a creation. It is the byproduct of creating and independent being with full choice.

Yes…my God, who's name is Yehovah, did make Himself know to me.

 

[Simplelogic]

You do use very simple logic, don't ya?

Do you not know what omniscient means?



Are you for real? Please look up omniscience.

I never claimed God was omniscient. He can be everywhere though because of His elaborate system of communicating angels.

 

[Christer]

Question:

Why does God allow evil (or the "privation or absence of good")?

Answer:

"God allows evil to happen in order to bring a greater good therefrom." - St. Thomas Aquinas

 

[Christer]

Therefore, it is not man's fault, if evil (or the absence of good) exists. Correct?

For, how can you call "fault" something which necessarily brings a greater good?

So, if I load a gun and shoot the first child I see, the logical consequence is that this act will bring a greater good. He did not stop my hand, did He?

Why are you condemning me, then (if you condemn me), since by not shooting that child I would have reduced the amount of greater good that would follow?

Ciao

- viole

God does not allow bad things to happen: Evil belongs to the evolutionary process of human consciousness towards its ultimate goal of realizing its oneness with God or realizing that God alone is. Evil becomes acute only when people stop this journey and build permanent houses on the way. Pilgrims do not kill each other rather they help each other. It is only who have become settlers of Truth that create evil( moral, social, political and economical).

 

[Ray W]

Hello Everyone,
This is my first post here so please be gentle. These are my thoughts on the question, "Why does God allow evil?".
I look at evil as the equal and opposite reaction of Love. It's not something that was created, heck it's not even a "thing". When God created us he wanted us to Love him. I have thought in the past "well if he wants us to love him why didn't he just "make us" love him at creation". The reason he didn't is because that would not be love as he defines love in scripture to us. In order for us to truly love him we can't be programmed or forced, as those are not love. Because he wants us to love him as he defines love he has to allow the opposite of love, which is hate. Hate is the root of all that is evil. So because he wants our pure love, he has to allow evil to exist so that we can truly love him, or hate him.

 

[Robert Landbeck]

What is the "greater good"?

If the Promise of the Incarnation was for a 'Greater Good' that would be able to vanquish evil, and yet that Good does not yet exist, then those who claim to speak for God but are unable to offer that greater good must be in error, and faith, however sincere, is of no value as it is not aligned with God's will which must be the 'greater Good'. Thus until that greater good is revealed, religion has yet to begin. That would be the purpose of a second coming. To reveal that perfect good an expose both the dishonesty and limitations at the heart of the human condition. The Final Freedoms

 

[Aupmanyav]

It is called the Bible. You should read it; .

Don't ask people to read Bible.Most atheist I know say that they are atheists because of having read the Bible.