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Does God's plan require evil?
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<blockquote data-quote="aiki" data-source="post: 76692231" data-attributes="member: 178791"><p>Require it? No. Unavoidably entail it? Yes. </p><p></p><p>God didn't embark on His creation of the universe and you and I determined that evil should be a vital part of what He made, providing a dualistic "darkness makes the light shine brighter" sort of effect. God is <em><u>perfect</u></em>, without the dualistic light/dark quality many Christians think is necessary to existence. "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all," the apostle John wrote (<strong>1 John 1:5</strong>). His perfection does not require the presence of evil, of darkness, within Himself; He is not perfect because He possesses a properly-balanced measure of light <em>and darkness</em> in His nature, but because darkness is <em>entirely absent</em> from Him. What, then, of this dualistic idea that Light and Dark are necessary balancing forces within His Creation, that Good must be balanced with Evil? </p><p></p><p>When God first created our World, there was no moral evil in it, none of the corruption of wickedness fouling the World with disease, violence, spiritual separation from Himself and our much-abbreviated life-spans. Why, if Light <em>requires</em> Darkness, did God not infuse His Creation with it from the start? </p><p></p><p>What is evident from the nature of our World is that in such a world populated by free moral agents, able to love God and so, necessarily, also able to hate Him, it is not possible that <em>everyone</em> will freely choose to love Him. If such a world <em>were</em> possible, it stands to reason that God would, being the good God that He is, have instantiated such a world. Instead, He made our sin-cursed world, a world in which, out of all possible worlds, the maximum number of people freely choose to love Him. </p><p></p><p>So, God did not institute moral evil into our world as a necessary ingredient that He <em>wanted</em> to be present in it. Instead, God made a world of free moral agents in which evil could not be avoided.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aiki, post: 76692231, member: 178791"] Require it? No. Unavoidably entail it? Yes. God didn't embark on His creation of the universe and you and I determined that evil should be a vital part of what He made, providing a dualistic "darkness makes the light shine brighter" sort of effect. God is [I][U]perfect[/U][/I], without the dualistic light/dark quality many Christians think is necessary to existence. "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all," the apostle John wrote ([B]1 John 1:5[/B]). His perfection does not require the presence of evil, of darkness, within Himself; He is not perfect because He possesses a properly-balanced measure of light [I]and darkness[/I] in His nature, but because darkness is [I]entirely absent[/I] from Him. What, then, of this dualistic idea that Light and Dark are necessary balancing forces within His Creation, that Good must be balanced with Evil? When God first created our World, there was no moral evil in it, none of the corruption of wickedness fouling the World with disease, violence, spiritual separation from Himself and our much-abbreviated life-spans. Why, if Light [I]requires[/I] Darkness, did God not infuse His Creation with it from the start? What is evident from the nature of our World is that in such a world populated by free moral agents, able to love God and so, necessarily, also able to hate Him, it is not possible that [I]everyone[/I] will freely choose to love Him. If such a world [I]were[/I] possible, it stands to reason that God would, being the good God that He is, have instantiated such a world. Instead, He made our sin-cursed world, a world in which, out of all possible worlds, the maximum number of people freely choose to love Him. So, God did not institute moral evil into our world as a necessary ingredient that He [I]wanted[/I] to be present in it. Instead, God made a world of free moral agents in which evil could not be avoided. [/QUOTE]
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