Is God Good? - Solution to Theodicy

One way of solving the problem of evil, or theodicy. Uses the arguments from freedom as well as the temporal: evil is not destroyed yet, it will be one day.

Admittedly it is a simplified presentation of the arguments. If you are interested in how natural evil might be addressed then I invite you to check out a blog post I did on that topic and let me know what you think.
http://seizeeternity.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/the-problem-of-evila-response-t...

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[dazzar15]

This is a tired and over used arguement that fails again and again. When will Christians get it into their heads that not all sufffering and evil can be explained by human action or choice?

OK, a lot suffering can be explained by human free will and bad choices. But what about bad things such as natural disasters,diseases and suffering in nature? These things occur outside of human control, and are not a result of human free will. How do you explain these things?

[CarpeAeternitatem]

@dazzar15

Great comment Dazzar! It is true that this does not address natural evil. In the description of the video I added a link to a blog post that tries to deal with that issue. Check it out and let me know what you think!

[humanistheart]

"evil is not destroyed yet, it will be one day."

Really, you're arguing that Yahweh will be destroyed one day? Well that's good news.

[Cootabux]

Aphex217Twin

It's not that simple. If a soul in heaven has free will but not the capacity to sin, then it means that soul has been altered.

Free will "is" the capacity to do whatever one wishes to. as you call it. Even the angels can sin.

Besides all that, I have to ask how you would know any of your comment is true? You have no way of knowing what heaven;y conditions are like, not to mention if heaven even exists, which I'm convinced it doesn't.

[Cootabux]

Yahweigh

Why hell yes, u can get anything u want in heaven! Prozac, even Heroin. U can get booze, etc. In other words, u have free will & can do anything, & get anything your heart desires.

There's only two iron clad rules, which can never be broken. 1, You can't die, and 2, you gotta worship god forever & ever! Heaven turns into hell!

Hows that sound? No, I wouldn't dig it either.

Just as with your poignant comment, I'm throwing my 2 cents in too, on how cruel & evil, the Xian heaven would be.

[Cootabux]

God is good??

I'd love to see that claim demonstrated. You can't add up the bad or evil deeds and match 'em up with the good deeds and look at them as cancelling out. It doesn't work that way.

God can perform healings, make up 613 laws, but all it takes is one evil act of god killing children, as in the 1st born of Egypt, or 42 kids ripped to shreds by god's killer bears. Just one evil act, such as one of these, erases any and all so-called goodness in this monster god Psychopath of the bible.

[Yahweigh]

Will we be robots in heaven?

Or will that be full of people choosing to do bad too?

Or is there no free will in heaven?

Also, will i be able to get my prozac in heaven?

Im sad without it.

[Aphex217Twin]

And the list of problems goes on. Having freewill doesn't mean you're able to sin, because God, and souls in heaven have freewill just fine without the capacity to sin, proving that freewill and capacity to sin have nothing to do with each other. And even if you did have to be able to sin in order to have freewill, you don't have to actually sin, just be able to, so God could have made a world where we're able to sin, we just choose not to.

[Aphex217Twin]

There are several problems with this argument. The first is that there is no freewill, that sortove blows it out of the water, but people still argue this all the time, so let's just assume that there is freewill, then there are other problems with the argument. How can God know the future if I'm free to act differently then how he knows I'm going to act? If God can know without taking away freewill, then why didn't God choose to create a world where he knows everybody only makes good choices