[QUOTE="MAILER_DAEMON"]Sounds more like you're angry at God than anything else, but you forget that if God had left us without the ability to choose right from wrong, good from evil, then we would be slaves to him. What's good about that? Nothing, which is why he allows evil to exist. Evil is anything apart from God, which naturally exists by virtue of the fact that God must be absolutely good. There doesn't even have to be an absolutely evil being... anything not of God's standard is evil.
Atrus
I'm certainly not angry. I don't view God in terms of your God or that other guys God, I view God as a collective concept no more real than any figment of your imagination except for special pleading. If I need to get into specifics then I'll channel up individual definitions.
Let's put it this way, would you be a good if you knowingly allowed children to stick their hands into box full of ebola ridden syringes? Why then do you consider a being so powerful yet so impotent to do anything sitting by with the supposed power to prevent suffering as good? Particularly when it involves infinite suffering? Couldn't pop in and tell Eve, "no don't listen to the Snake he's a damned liar!" instead it chose to voyeuristic route and watch the fall of man as it happened (again according to Jewish myth).
Is it too lazy to use it's magic to conjure up some food for a starving child alone in the Sudan? What choice did she have? By 'she' I mean someone like her: http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/wanting_a_meal.jpg
The simple and obvious answer is that this 'God' is indistinguishable from the lack of 'God', and that's namely because it's no more real than the hundreds and thousands of deities that have gone before it, or the hundreds that have come after it. I mean your notion of God sat by while hundreds of millions died from small pox, only for humans to curb it. Did it just not care? Why create small pox and other diseases that kill humans so easily and indescriminantly?
It's understandable if this is just how the universe was, but it certainly is not acceptable if there's an all-powerful entity able to stop it. We call such despots tyrants, and tyrants should never be worshiped.
God isn't just going to solve our problems magically. We are the ones who got themselves into this, so we have to get ourselves out. He may be able to solve our problems, but he doesn't. Why exactly? I do not know. I could speculate, but I don't want to drag this into a long arguement.
Eve already knew not to eat from that tree so she should have not taken the apple from the snake in the first place. Why did God do this if he knew that Eve would do this, I don't know. Maybe he was trying to teach the readers of the Bible a lesson?
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