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Debate:Did God create evil? (view source)
Revision as of 01:57, July 13, 2009
, 01:57, July 13, 2009God gave free will; Evil is absence of God
Finally, let me ask you something. You said that you don’t belong to any religion. Fair enough, that’s fine. But, how then do you know that anything you say is true? Someone might ask me how I could know Christianity to be true, and I could point out that Jesus is a historical figure, that the resurrection account is incredibly reliable, etc. The validity of the Bible is a debatable issue, but at least I have something to point to that’s outside of myself. At least I have some objective standard to look to. But what do you have? Where are you deriving your views? Are you just getting everything from your subjective opinions and feelings? And, if that’s the case, do your feelings determine truth? [[User:BillyJ|BillyJ]] 15:08, 10 July 2008 (EDT)
Finally, let me ask you something. You said that you don’t belong to any religion. Fair enough, that’s fine. But, how then do you know that anything you say is true? Someone might ask me how I could know Christianity to be true, and I could point out that Jesus is a historical figure, that the resurrection account is incredibly reliable, etc. The validity of the Bible is a debatable issue, but at least I have something to point to that’s outside of myself. At least I have some objective standard to look to. But what do you have? Where are you deriving your views? Are you just getting everything from your subjective opinions and feelings? And, if that’s the case, do your feelings determine truth? [[User:BillyJ|BillyJ]] 15:08, 10 July 2008 (EDT)
Firstly, God created a world where His children may have free will to serve Him as they wish. That is one of the greatest He gave us, and it makes no sense to complain about it. Secondly, evil was not created by God. Evil is the absence of God, and were people to follow His guides from the beginning, from Genesis, there would have been no evil in humans. [[User:JDelaney|JDelaney]] 21:57, 12 July 2009 (EDT)