Cosmology theory, by default, defines God as an Existent God, a perverse mega-creature, who
created evil in the universe so we can step right into the trap.
In the classical, Christian cosmology, the Fall, starting with Satan, really,
creates the evil in the cosmos.
Although my life (as I knew it) was destroyed by egos
creating evil in my life, the blessings were / are that I'm closer to God than ever.
Not exact matches
The carry trade, derivatives and massive injections of money
created out of thin air are but nails
in our coffins and if we do not stop these
evil people it will mean destruction.
Politicians have used religion to advance their claims to just wars but
in truth, they are not religious conflicts, just a facade
created by atheists to avoid blame for the
evil they cause.
a) that the bible is an imperfect human representation of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was
created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a pure message was corrupted intentionally by
evil humans or spirits
An omnipotent, omniscient god that supposedly
created the universe and all
in it, would not have needed to
create evil, disease, and illness
in the first place and would have the power to eliminate
evil, disease, and illness if it chose to.
I see the image of God
in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality
creating works of never ending wonder
in the presence of
evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.
let alone the god they present, one who could have
created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up
in a fictional work; why would god then giddily
create / allow so much pain and
evil?
True, where humans are involved, we see a reflection of good and
evil in how we can
create Babel towers out of a lot of things.
@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others
in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their
evil intent, but the God who has
created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God
in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.
If Warfield is not concerned with Catholicism, then why
in his discussion of the kind of «faith healing» promoted by men like A. J. Gordon does he claim that it
creates a class of «professionals» who stand between the soul and God and that «from this germ the whole sacerdotal
evil has grown»?
Now if God can
create any possible world — i.e., if one affirms «I» omnipotence — then it seems clearly to follow that no
evil state of affairs
in the actual world is genuine.
That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power
in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have
created a world containing no
evil simply by
creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).
Plantinga, however does affirm I2,
in that he does believe that God could have unilaterally «brought about» a world containing no
evil if he had chosen not to
create at all or to actualize a possible world containing no self - determining individuals other than himself.
In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral
evil currently under discussion are not able to present a better world, «the (classical) theist does not have to show that it was impossible for God to
create a better set of world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).
I consider that men DID
create and write the bible, but both Christ and satan are metaphors... christ is the metaphor for the potential good
in a person, satan the metaphor for the potential of bad or
evil... given that this is MY definition, and makes much more sense that most other beleifs, then the bible WAS written by satan, or rather it was inspired by the bad /
evil side of the minds of the writers.
Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who
created all and will continue to
create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to
create man
in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying
evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
In addition to recognizing common grace, Calvinism acknowledges the reality of a «common curse,» said Carter, in that «man is fallen, man has a bent toward evil, and man is not capable of creating utopia on his own.&raqu
In addition to recognizing common grace, Calvinism acknowledges the reality of a «common curse,» said Carter,
in that «man is fallen, man has a bent toward evil, and man is not capable of creating utopia on his own.&raqu
in that «man is fallen, man has a bent toward
evil, and man is not capable of
creating utopia on his own.»
God
created chaos by
creating evil and this Luifcer guy, killed millions
in floods, fires, disasters and then his own son.
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who,
in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally
in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both
in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and
in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon i
in the
evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.
There are but two methods of providing against this
evil: the one by
creating a will
in the community independent of the majority, that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending
in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.»
Not to mention every verse
in the Bible that asserts that God is
in control of the universe, that he is the one who is responsible for unbelief as well as belief, that he
created both good AND
EVIL, would be wrong, meaning the Bible would be fallible, meaning that the validity of everything else inside it would be called into question as well.
God did not
create evil or sin because
evil exists only
in a negative way.
The temptation that led to this sin as well as to the other
evil in the
created order is to be explained by the previous rebellion of angels.
If there is free will
in Heaven but no
evil, that goes to show that God can
in fact
create worlds with both free will and no
evil.
I think scripture is a rich metaphor
created by human
in an attempt to understand the presence of
evil in the world, as well as to express their hope that it will end.
But it was the Father's will to redeem humanity from slavery to
evil and eternal corruption, and precisely for the sake of His Son
in whom humankind was
created and called to become co-sharers of the Divine Nature.
Your god
created everything including «
evil», supposedly with the full knowledge of the consequences... so what you are
in effect saying, is god wanted the holocaust to happen, since we would gain some small knowledge because of it.
There is
in Isaiah the puzzling verse, «I form the light, and
create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord do all these things».
Only Jesus can pray to Jesus that Jesus doesn't cast us into the Hell that Jesus
created because Jesus loves us and wants us to live for eternity
in His Heaven unless we do not believe
in and honor Him, whereupon He will vomit us up and into the everlasting agony of Hell which He prays we do not go to because He loves us so much even though we are born
evil and vile
in His eyes and require being born again so that He does not condemn us to a fiery eternity and, rather, can love us
in Heaven for ever and ever, Amen.
It can lead to competition and conflict among member states, but it also
creates the conditions for cooperation
in promoting the common good and confronting
evil and injustice.
Second, you are saying it tells us god is the one
in control, yet you've already told us just the opposite, that god didn't
create evil.
Our best moral theories might seem to entail that nothing could justify God's having
created a world with so much
evil in it.
My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god
CREATE the VERY ESSENCE of
evil, and would that not indicate that god is
evil in nature?
sanders, If your god
created the universe and all
in it, it
created humans with all the perceived flaws and it
created evil.
Hart, who next year will be a visiting professor at Providence College, spoke with us about
evil and its place
in the world that God
created and loves.
observer, If God did not put the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil in the the Garden of Eden nor
created Satan, the nature of Adam and Eve would still have been the same just not revealed.
I think you're asking
in a gnostic sense, suggesting there might be a good and an
evil God
creating things.
The cosmic «I» no longer sees the perpetual perishing of worlds or universes, or even itself, as ultimate
evil, but instead cries out
in adoration to its creator: «It is enough to have been
created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit.
Honestly, the way I see it, when people say someone has demons
in them or is possessed, or says that
evil people will be
created for these
evil days, it's saying to me, «F*ck free will!»
(he says god didn't
create the world with
evil and death
in it till «man'turned away from him, as
in worship me or I'm a gonna smack you upside the head boy which god did
in his world)
in my world, it was
created, not sure how, big bang..
I see the universe as a perfect and balanced place
created by god
in his own special way, he is all powerful and
evil does not exit rather the ability to have freedom of will.
Rather, he
created a universe of beings
in which
evil is a possibility and has indeed occurred.
If I was a believer
in a deity that I say
created everything I would have to praise both the good and the
evil that it does.
Religion is
evil because man is involved
in it, man
created it and man perpetuates it.
In this book he argued that religion
created a conscience which is quick to understand social need, that religious philanthropy gives charitably but without raising ultimate questions about the causes of social maladjustment, that religion «unifies individuals, stabilizes societies,
creates social imagination and sanctifies social life; but it also perpetuates ancient
evils, increases social inertia,
creates illusions and preserves superstitions.
They can't see the basic human psychology
in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and
evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to
create heaven or hell.
If God
created everything, doesn't this mean he
created sin, the devil, and generally everything which is
evil in the world?
The basic problem to which Paul addresses himself
in this passage is the prevalence of sin and
evil in the world
created good by God.