You can call it what you will. Right after God finished creating He called ALL of His creation good, however, Adam disobeyed God and both sin and death entered the world. There is your evil. As far as Heaven, evil started there with satan rebellion so there was evil in heaven.
The world that God created contains both. He is the vessel of good while mankind was seduced by the vessel of evil.
Yeah, except God still knew all of that would happen beforehand so his creation *wasn't* all that good was it?
You can and you should. The issue of God's omniscience is irrelevant since He created the world, and satan, with the full knowledge that evil would exist.
Um no, God's omniscience is entirely relevant, if not central, to the philosophical implications of the way he created the universe. Besides, how does God creating the world with foreknowledge of evil negate the importance of his omnipotence?
Evil is merely the absence of good. You can't have evil without good. Both are necessary for choice.
That is a debatable assertion. You are creating a false dichotomy, treating moral conditions as a black-and-white affair. You allow no middle ground.
Think about this for a minute, if there was no evil then there could not be love either since love is the answer to evil. If we didn't have a choice between good and evil then we could not choose to love either.
You're making a bare assertion by saying that love is the "answer to evil". Furthermore, love is not a choice. That is the beauty of love; it is not a conscious decision. You do not choose who you fall in love with; it simply happens whether you want it to or not.
Well, that is certainly an emotive argument. I'm thankful that you are not God.
It is not an emotive argument. I was saying that creating an entire race of people knowing that the majority will be eternally tortured doesn't make a whole lot of sense and smacks of sadism.
Not at all. The choice is theirs. I know how you are going to answer this so please don't follow the atheist playbook and answer honestly.
Atheist playbook? Answer honestly? What in the world are you on about?
Hmm, follow a celestial tyrant for which there is no empirical evidence here on earth and spend eternity worshipping him, or be burned forever in a lake of fire? What a wonderful choice! Worship God... or else... so loving, he is.
Sure it is. I own a 1968 Camaro that I restored and has a top speed of 156 mph. I can drive that speed because I can. God can create anything He wants because He is omnipotent so He can.
You say you're glad I'm not God. I have often thought about how I would design the universe if I were God, but that is another description for another day.
Now allow me to retort; I'm glad my little sister won't be learning to drive this October in the same area as you. The profound stupidity of what you said belies the fact that you have little regard for others and probably are fine with the doctrine of hell.
Personally, I could never truly enjoy your heaven knowing that there are billions of souls writhing and screaming in hell forever. But perhaps you're comfortable ignoring that implication of your frankly heartless concept of reality.