Sentences with phrase «responsible for the evil»

Atheists often point out that IF there was a god, He would be responsible for the evil in the world.

We aren't saying he's real, just saying that if he was, wouldn't he be responsible for the evil in the world as well as the good?

In fairness religion has been responsible for a lot of good in this world, even if it is based on myths and at times has also been responsible for evil.

Whether this is DP1 or DP2, evil by commission or permission, clearly, both views imply that God is responsible for evil.

Is God responsible for evil, both natural and humanly willed evil?

In this construct God is not responsible for evil, but neither does God identify with the suffering caused by evil.

But, there is of course a great deal of evil in the world, and if God is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must be responsible for that evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.

An omnipotent deity is responsible for the evil in the world.

When you say «God is in control» it brings up a problem.There is stealing, murder and rape going on in the world and if God is in control then he is responsible for the evil that is happening.

If one believes one, then it follows that they should believe that he is responsible for evil also.

This does not make God responsible for evil, for God never wills or wants anything that is against goodness, justice, truth, and beauty.

Unlike us, God exhibits patience; God does not punish those responsible for evil.

Ayer would rule out as meaningless such statements as «God is good», «God is responsible for the evils in the world», and «God loves you».

Because he chose still to create them he is therefore complicit and actually responsible for the evil they did, just as Oppenheimer knew he was responsible for his creation and it's evil.

I think a better theory is that trolls are responsible for all evil.

If one rejects classical omnipotence, then God is not 0mm - responsible for the evils in the world.

We are responsible for evil and bad things because we deviate from the good things God made and make them perverted and corrupt.

Insofar as God controls the world, he is responsible for evil: directly in terms of the natural order, and indirectly in the case of man.

God, because he acts by persuasion within the finite realm and vet is the source of infinite potentials, is not responsible for the evil in the world.

And since he gave us free will it follows he is responsible for our evil.

He is violently opposed to concepts of God derived from autocratic forms of government, at whose word everything began, whose rule is by divine fiat, and who is ultimately responsible for all evil and suffering.

Whitehead's conceptuality explains the rise of good and the rise of evil without making God responsible for any evil which can not be justified.

A further objection to the monarchial model is that it makes God responsible for evil and suffering.

Hence God is responsible for these evils in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible.

Does this mean, then, that God is responsible for evil?

I would like to express my own agreement with John Cobb and David Griffin who hold that a God of adventure, while perhaps responsible for the evil of discord that accompanies novelty, is not indictable for it.

It's stupid to say that god created the universe but people are responsible for the evil that exists.

Oord takes Wesley's concept of God as Spirit and explains how God as provider of initial aims is not responsible for the evil that results from human action because God does not have the control that humans have over human bodies.

Still, this education has largely failed, and we persist in our primitivism, holding the people opposed to us, or the force of events, responsible for our evils.

========== @LinCA: «If evil is the result of free will, and your god created free will, then your god is directly responsible for evil.

Not exact matches

Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: Gmail, AdSense, and the Google mantra, «Don't be evil.»

However, the new theology is both explicable and testable in the ontological sense, that God is not responsible for the origin of evil and temptation.

And what's with all the high - horse crap about how democrats and republicans are evil and poor people are lazy and not worth charity and everyone's religion is responsible for everything that's wrong?

If your statement was even remotely true (which it is not) your god would also be responsible for all negative and bad outcomes, thus making him good and evil.

Second, the logic of divine over-power makes God responsible for all unnecessary evil in the world.

This makes God aware of evil but humans responsible for it.

Isaiah 45:7, KJV says the Christian god is responsible for at least some evil:»..

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.

The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.

Fairy tales are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already.

But, my listener, would you dare, as a father (and I feel confident that you have a lofty conception of the meaning of this name, a responsible conception of the charge which it lays upon you) would you dare, as a father, to say to your child as you sent him out into the world, «Go, with your mind at ease, my child, pay attention to what the many approve and what the world rewards, for that is the Good, but what the world punishes, that is evil.

If the church could make a leap of faith from being a carrier of anachronistic mission and defective theology to being accountable and responsible for both good and evil, Africa would benefit immensely.

My students read sermons by Nazi theologians arguing that Jews were evil and were responsible for killing Jesus.

Thus the good Ahura was not to be held responsible for the creation of the evil in the world.

There is evil in the world, and it can not be explained by free will because then God is responsible for giving us free will, and so forth and so on.

Man, can't make any post on this topic without it turning into a discussion about whether or not religion is responsible for all the evil in the world...

It's this kind of over the top judgement, holding others to your personal religious beliefs, that are responsible for so many Americans today feeling that religion in general has nothing to offer besides bigotry, judgement, and a sad credo that everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do is wrong and evil.

That is why atheism is on a higher moral ground, we understand that WE are responsible for any act, be it kindness or evil, that we perpetrate.

In this latter case God is not necessarily responsible for the existence of evil; he would only be responsible if it were not finally overcome.

If evil transpires, this can only mean that the self is overpowered by an alien force, and reason can not be responsible for its own defeat.