Wouldn't they have been created by an omnipotent, omniscient god so really god only has itself to blame for a)
creating evil humans and b) not being able to devise a better solution.
Not exact matches
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
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.
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).
Creating the universe from nothing, forging a union of
human and divine natures, and causing the defeat of
evil — each of these events would involve full ontological determination by God.
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 it.
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.
A God who
creates humans who by definition must be
evil because t hey are not God.
Hitler therefore
created the environment for the Holocaust AND the Mechanism (just as god
created the environment and mechanism of
human evil).
Angra Mainyu
created an opposite,
evil being for each good being, except for
humans, which he found he could not match.
sanders, If your god
created the universe and all in it, it
created humans with all the perceived flaws and it
created evil.
«Pure
evil» is the only label that can be placed on an omnipotent and omniscient deity that
creates humans for the sole purpose of eternal tourture.
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.
Bloom traces the origin of values to Friedrich Nietzsche, who preached the supremacy of the
human will and its ability to
create good and
evil.
And concepts of good and
evil can easily be defined as
human (or hominid)
created concepts that are necessary for forming civilizations.
They admirably avoid the fundamental question that haunts Christian theology: if God who wills to be involved has
created a world in which not even he can act in perfect blamelessness, how can God avoid the accusation of guilt — ultimate, primordial culpability for
human suffering; culpability for that which we experience as
evil?
From the standpoint of our interpretation of religion the central Christian experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power of community -
creating and community - destroying factors in
human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome of the battle between good and
evil.
Paradoxically then,
human beings
create evil, but God can «make good use of
evil.»
... I learned that you, Lycidas, should be ready to respond with your verses when those «followers» of Mine say that I do not
create Evil and evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I do those things that humans consider evi
Evil and
evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I do those things that humans consider evi
evil things... imagine that, a verse from their «Bible» that says I do those things that
humans consider
evilevil...
GOD, who supposedly has the power over the universe, life and death, certainly doesn't need
humans ro help Him gather up cash, followers or need help to beat
evil or to even
create heaven on Earth.
Moral codes and power - politics are necessary to check
evil and promote legal and social justice that protects
human rights of the weak; and redemptive power of Divine forgiveness helps to
create a community of mutual love that transcends historical divisions of society.
That argument, which comes after his statement that «the argument would go as follows,» is exactly my argument, namely, that the God of traditional theism could have
created human - like beings without libertarian freedom, thereby avoiding all the
evil due to
human sin.
You say that god can not abide sin and
evil, yet he continued along the path to
create lucifer, and indeed the very nature that
humans have that leads to
evil.
(3)
Evil is not an inherent or necessary part of existence or
human nature (creation was
created good), but neither are
humans wholly free to choose the good at any given moment.
Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of
evil created by
human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.
Thus in Biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of
evil created by
human self - alienation.
Granted, there will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing ingenuity of
human sin, and
creating a painful legacy of injury and
evil.
Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to
create a thick dense smoke can drive
evil spirits away from the household and remove the «
evil eye» from nearby
humans.
God can not
create something
evil or disapproved of —
human beings make themselves disapproved by their behavior.
We are free, but not to be
evil, not to be indifferent to
human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work
created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Evil Aliens from a distant asteroid invade the Earth to
create half -
human robots with synthetic blood and body parts Astro - Zombies!
The
evil scientist Professor Gangreen (John Astin) has
created a way to transform tomatoes into
human form in order to build an army of shirtless muscle men that will wage war against mankind.
Having been around since 1987, Capcom's Mega Man has fought countless robots
created by the
evil Dr. Wily in order to achieve peace and harmony in a world where robots and
humans live together.
The Empire, the normal
humans, Dwarves, and High Elves are joined together to
create Order while Greenskins (Orcs and Goblins), Chaos, the
evil humans, and Dark Elves make up Destruction.