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Apr 13 2015 03:17pm
Bet you know the rest of that sentence. :)

Yeah... How could a God of love allow all this evil in the world? I have issues with that myself as well. Well, this article addresses that question pretty well. It doesn't really answer the question, but it does push us to think from a different point of view.

https://answersingenesis.org/suffering/and-it-was-good/
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Apr 13 2015 07:42pm
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.
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Apr 13 2015 07:55pm
Quote (kalelvszod @ Apr 13 2015 06:42pm)
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.


Life's not fair kid.
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Apr 13 2015 09:22pm
as i see it got gave us free will to do as we please so ofc there will be evil
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Apr 13 2015 10:25pm
Quote (kalelvszod @ Apr 13 2015 08:42pm)
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.


Metaphysical mumbo jumbo.

There are no moral phenomena, only moral interpretation of phenomena.
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Apr 14 2015 03:21am
Quote (kalelvszod @ 13 Apr 2015 20:42)
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.


Quote (southpark247 @ 13 Apr 2015 22:22)
as i see it got gave us free will to do as we please so ofc there will be evil



But he's not talking about evil in the article he's just talking about things which can do us harm, There are so many ways for man to get hurt and ways for man to accidentally die.
And then there's many ways that man has developed for causing hurt and death, that's where "free will" comes in if you look at it coming from a Christian point of view. A Christian would know that Satan works just as hard as Jesus doesand that his handi-work goes into things like weapons of mass destruction poison gas, the desire to murder etc..

Think about it this way, when you were a child growing up would you look back on those days with any fondness if your mom and dad sheltered you from everything? If they held your had all the time everyday all day, or kept you in a plastic bubble sealed off to keep you safe? Of course not. I got three concussions and four different sets of stitches and two casts on broken bones before I was eighteen. And I had a great childhood! I was rough and tumble all day all the time.

My kids are the same way, with six kids I can't even count the broken collar bones, or casts we have saved, how many sets of stitches the collective set of kids have gotten. I would have felt safer having them all safely sit on the couch or in plastic bubbles breathing purified air, but I've loved them way too much to make them endure that. And in fact I've been too selfish in my enjoyment of watching them live life to make them endure that. You aren't living if you don't run the risk of stepping on that octopus every so often, part of the fun of swimming in the ocean is not being taken by a great white. Those "horrible" things mentioned in the article are all just life, they are part of what make us mortal, if we didn't have things that made us fear for our lives, then we wouldn't hold our lives as precious as we do would we? So maybe they would be looked at as a gift just as much or maybe even a greater gift than the ordinary things.
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Apr 14 2015 05:56am
Would there be any good and love if evil and hate didn't exist?

We wouldn't be able to become "good people" if we didn't know what is right to embrace and what should we stay away from.

At least that's how I understand it.

That would be assuming free will exists though, and personally I don't believe it does.
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Apr 14 2015 06:19am
Quote (BardOfXiix @ Apr 13 2015 09:55pm)
Life's not fair kid.


only a kid would post this..

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 14 2015 12:25am)
Metaphysical mumbo jumbo.

There are no moral phenomena, only moral interpretation of phenomena.


true, all how about how people percieve things, good and evil all bout point of view i suppose or what the majority of the population considers

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Apr 14 2015 10:59am
Stop wasting your time asking yourself what God can or can't do, or why he does this and doesn't do that. Focus on man, for he is the one that controls his own destiny.
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Apr 14 2015 11:28am
Quote (kalelvszod @ Apr 13 2015 06:42pm)
Way i look at it the universe needs balance. you have good only fair you have evil.


So, when God created the universe it was initially out of balance? You know, until Adam and Eve ate the apple? A perfect God creating an unbalanced universe seems rather odd...
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