Theology Question

[BidenPresident]

I wanted an answer and I got the answer that I was expecting.

You're coming off as a troll.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I don't see why an all powerful God wants people to suffer.

that is because you don't care to understand God or Christianity

 

[gfm7175]

Looks like you refuse to engage with the topic of the thread.

I've been engaging it... I've been asking you questions to get you to think about why God might have "went about it" the way that he did.

What it comes down to is you thinking that you know better than God does.

 

[gfm7175]

You're coming off as a troll.

Troll... sock... troll... sock... troll... sock... blah blah blah blah blah

 

[BidenPresident]

I've been engaging it... I've been asking you questions to get you to think about why God might have "went about it" the way that he did.

What it comes down to is you thinking that you know better than God does.

But you know God better than God does.

 

[BidenPresident]

Troll... sock... troll... sock... troll... sock... blah blah blah blah blah

ignore

 

[evince]

"This is the best of all possible worlds". -Leibniz

Not true

 

[evince]

As I understood it meant that God did as good as it could possibly be done while preserving His plans for his creation. This is the best possible configuration of events that can be conceived. As such God performed exactly correctly.

(NOte: I'm not a big believer in any of this, it's just how I understood the "Problem of Evil" to be addressed most efficiently)

God created man in his likeness

 

[evince]

How would you know what happiness is without sadness?


How would you know what utopia is without imperfections?

Is that why you seek to bring evil to mankind?

 

[BidenPresident]

Not true

Leibniz meant the best possible world God could make.

 

[evince]

Well if you are a Diest, God created the world and stepped back, if a Christian, he gave man free will to create his own world, which resulted in the mess we have before us now

God is all powerful and created humans in his likeness


So god is just as flawed as humans

 

[evince]

Leibniz meant the best possible world God could make.

Then his is not all powerful and is as flawed as us

 

[BidenPresident]

Then his is not all powerful and is as flawed as us

That is what Leibniz said.

 

[evince]

I've been engaging it... I've been asking you questions to get you to think about why God might have "went about it" the way that he did.

What it comes down to is you thinking that you know better than God does.

You are not a good person

 

[evince]

that is because you don't care to understand God or Christianity

You are a horrible person

 

[evince]

fasle assumption based on bias and ignorance

Are you a libertarian?

 

[evince]

you will never be rid of me. you need a being with higher intelligence than you to tell you what is right and what is wrong. you are wrong.

The kind of idiot shit witch burners used in place of logic

 

[evince]

I disagree. Rather, if people don't realize that their situation could be different, then they aren't missing out on anything. Their situation "just is". IOW, happiness lacks meaning without sadness to compare it to. Hot lacks meaning without cold to compare it to.

So you believe god created evil

 

[evince]

How would a utopian world understand the joy of said utopia without first understanding the pain of dystopia?

Because god could have created it that way


God is all powerful remember


God is not all powerful


Thanks for agreeing

 

[evince]

So that people are capable of understanding the full joy of happiness?

He could have created them with the ability to understand