God, Morality and Human Beings

Why is there evil in the world? Why do humans have free will? Could God have made human beings with free will and a world without evil?

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[Stephen5000]

Perhaps one has to be omnipotent in order to have the inability to do evil?

[brettppalmer]

@Stephen5000 So, in other words, evil is the rock that is too large for God to move?

[brettppalmer]

@caseagainstfaith "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" by C&C Music Factory.

[WilliamofWare]

@brettppalmer

"So, in other words, evil is the rock that is too large for God to move?"

yeah, and just as meaningless. just as there's no such thing as a rock too heavy for him, there's no such a thing as a creature that can act with limitless, perfect rectitude.

[k2sweet]

Hmm. (haha. guess that music vid was right because I never thought about this in this way before)

[grozde]

@Stephen5000

:-)) May be that's because we actually exist...

[DeadManTalkingLD]

-I suppose it depends on your answer to the question about God and morality.

If morality is subjective, God chooses what is good and evil has free will; if morality is objective, he is obeying the natural laws of morality and he does not have free will.

[DeadManTalkingLD]

God being all good doesn't necessarily mean he is unable to do evil.. No one could be good without having the ability to perform evil. Without evil you couldn't really say anything was good.

This only leads to "Is this evil because God hates it, or does God hate this because it's evil?"

I would say the latter because of omnipotence- but how can something be factually evil if morality is subjective?

As you said God seems to suggest it's objective, which mean's he is obeying it.-

[Stephen5000]

@brettppalmer And yet WE can move it...