Why did you change the Epicurean Paradox? You realize that's not the real statement, right? Check other sources. Anyway, here are the REAL possible answers to God not preventing Evil:
1) If not able, God isn't omnipotent
2) If unwilling, God is malevolent
3) Both willing, but not able, why call him God?
4) Unwilling and Unable, why call him God?
This is from the 3 necessary characteristics of God. He needs to be Omnipotent, Omniscient and Eternal.
2) If it is a place of beauty and paradise for his "children" to live in... then why put Satan there tooo??? That's like getting a bunch of small infant children, and then locking them in a room with a rabid starving wolf... NOT GOOD!
3) If god allowed evil to exist as a test... then god is malevolent. Why? We exist as toys for him to amuse himself with, hence god would be evil and not good. If he can't stop evil then he isn't all powerful... i think you found yourself in another trap...
1) How can man (specifically Adam) have free will? He couldn't because how can he obey god and make a choice if he could not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If he did not have said knowledge, then how can he make an informed choice? How does he even know if god is good if he doesn't know what good is? And why would god punish him for something he made Adam not understand? Worse still the garden of Eden was supposed to be a place of innocence and beauty? Continued...
Then fine, if god didn't create evil, and evil has an existence, then god didn't create all (logically: all being both existence and anything that exists). Then it still does not logically follow that god created anything.
Also, this doesn't address the second point that if god gives us free will, but then sets rules and says follow this or you are eternally damned, then that is coercion and abuse, both of which I would categorize as evil.
If God is good then how can he create evil? Wouldn't the act of creating evil be an evil act itself? And if God didn't create evil then he did not create all, and thus you cannot assume He created anything. I can make a free will choice between two good acts. I can share my 20 dollars with someone homeless or give them the whole 20 dollars. So, your argument is literally that god gives us free will but if we chose to go against Him we are punished. That's not a choice. That's coercion.
Why did you change the Epicurean Paradox? You realize that's not the real statement, right? Check other sources. Anyway, here are the REAL possible answers to God not preventing Evil:
1) If not able, God isn't omnipotent
2) If unwilling, God is malevolent
3) Both willing, but not able, why call him God?
4) Unwilling and Unable, why call him God?
This is from the 3 necessary characteristics of God. He needs to be Omnipotent, Omniscient and Eternal.
Unicron4ever 3 months ago
5) If God is both Willing and Able, then Evil does not exist.
Free Will has no impact on the question itself, only on God's characteristics.
- If Free Will prevents God from preventing Evil, then he is neither Omnipotent nor Omniscient.
- If Free Will doesn't prevent it, same thing, there is no Evil.
Unicron4ever 3 months ago
@Unicron4ever poop
111whitepony111 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
2) If it is a place of beauty and paradise for his "children" to live in... then why put Satan there tooo??? That's like getting a bunch of small infant children, and then locking them in a room with a rabid starving wolf... NOT GOOD!
3) If god allowed evil to exist as a test... then god is malevolent. Why? We exist as toys for him to amuse himself with, hence god would be evil and not good. If he can't stop evil then he isn't all powerful... i think you found yourself in another trap...
slavj 8 months ago
1) How can man (specifically Adam) have free will? He couldn't because how can he obey god and make a choice if he could not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If he did not have said knowledge, then how can he make an informed choice? How does he even know if god is good if he doesn't know what good is? And why would god punish him for something he made Adam not understand? Worse still the garden of Eden was supposed to be a place of innocence and beauty? Continued...
slavj 8 months ago
brainwashed
youricecream 9 months ago
Phew, ok. Does God have free will? Can God create something that goes wrong? So many questions are raised by your video, but how about these two?
snuju1 9 months ago
@CartesianTheist
Then fine, if god didn't create evil, and evil has an existence, then god didn't create all (logically: all being both existence and anything that exists). Then it still does not logically follow that god created anything.
Also, this doesn't address the second point that if god gives us free will, but then sets rules and says follow this or you are eternally damned, then that is coercion and abuse, both of which I would categorize as evil.
Protagoris 1 year ago
If God is good then how can he create evil? Wouldn't the act of creating evil be an evil act itself? And if God didn't create evil then he did not create all, and thus you cannot assume He created anything. I can make a free will choice between two good acts. I can share my 20 dollars with someone homeless or give them the whole 20 dollars. So, your argument is literally that god gives us free will but if we chose to go against Him we are punished. That's not a choice. That's coercion.
Protagoris 1 year ago
Awesome dude. I am a youth pastor in AR. I would love to have you come down and speak.
yeakley2003 1 year ago