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Yet that knowledge got us booted out of the Garden and into this world where good and evil always co-existed. We were never meant to be here.It was necessary to know evil because without it we would all be naive.
I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
God allows evil because we create it and have free will. We have sinned and are worthy of it, bringing so much of it onto ourselves. It would be different if we were all kind, God loving, innocent beautiful souls but we aren't. Many of the most beautiful ( outwardly by human standards) people are actually the most disgusting ugliest people( on the inside) who have clearly missed the point. People with fake beauty and plastic surgery are an insult to Gods creation and needing validation from lustful men is atrocious. Greedy evil people who are power hungry for the material things of the world is so ugly to God and its everywhere. We cannot change it. We already know how it ends. At this point we wait for things to go from bad to worse to unbearable to fulfill prophesy so Jesus can return.I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
Exactly. And that is one transition God won't have to worry about.We cannot change it. We already know how it ends. At this point we wait for things to go from bad to worse to unbearable to fulfill prophesy so Jesus can return.
A free will does eliminate evil. Think about it, we learn about evil to loathe it, not to get to choose it. Who would desire to be able to choose evil?For God to eliminate evil he would need to eliminate freewill, Does anyone want that?
Who would desire to be able to choose evil?
Is this why evil is existing because of what God created?
I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
I think evil is a natural product of existence. I don't think it's something that has to be created for it to exist. If you allow people free choices to do what they want, then naturally some of these decisions will be evil. Evil does have a purpose of developing ones character, inner resolve and strength. Also it allows us to enter the next life where there is no evil without having to wonder what evil is because we experienced it first hand in this life. Imagine being born in a world where there is no evil. You would eventually want to know what it is and the only way to know what it is to experience it. So getting it out the way in this life beats any other solution I know of.
I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
Adam and Eve had only knowledge of Good before they chose evil; the devil had to introduce the concept of evil to them as something to be desired, because they knew nothing of sickness, poverty, slavery, destruction, death, etc. - they knew only Good...
God gave Adam and Eve complete authority over the earth and all life. That included Satan, who had been cast down to the the earth. Adam effectively handed that same authority over to Satan when Adam complied with Satan's temptation. Adam knew what he was doing. So Adam and Eve became sinners and their neutral nature was infected, so to speak, with Satan's nature. And that is how evil came to be on the earth.I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
I was thinking about God and the question of why does God permit evil since no one would permit evil if they had the power to stop it. But I think that the answer isn't as simple as having the power to stop evil and then just stopping it. What if there is value in evil? What if we have to know evil because otherwise we would spend eternity in a happy paradise wondering about the other possibilities beyond the good we are experiencing. Maybe we just needed to know. It's like having an itch that must be scratched even at the risk of a scar. Maybe experiencing evil is worth knowing. What if we enter the next life grateful we know evil and no longer have to experience it again. Maybe that knowledge was necessary for us to be happy and whole. Wouldn't you want your children to know evil? And if so then maybe we shouldn't question God for allowing evil.
I would say that the problem is freewill and pride. Man is prideful and he uses his freewill to satisfy his pride instead of doing the will of God.So that means the problem is not freewill.
Yes of course. But that only furthers my point that a free will is one that is free from sin.Anyone who seeks gain at the expense of another.
I do not think I communicated clearly. I am saying that as long as man has freewill, he can, and some will choose evil.A free will does eliminate evil. Think about it, we learn about evil to loathe it, not to get to choose it. Who would desire to be able to choose evil?
Good point. However my post was a response in the context of already having experienced it.Someone who has never experienced it.
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