How do you know God is good?

[OldWiseGuy]

Parents often times cannot control a "natural evil". Please try again.

Why impose "natural evil" on individuals prior to the age of their accountability?

Your "natural evil" often affects disobedient children.

 

[cvanwey]

God created life.
I'm alive and loving it.
Therefore God is good.

On this note, how is this postulation any different than this one...

God created life.
I'm alive and suffering a life-long painful condition with no cure.
Therefore, God is bad.

Yes?

 

[JohnEmmett]

I'm alive and suffering a life-long painful condition with no cure.
Therefore, God is bad.

Yes?

people blame God too much


when they themselves cause their suffering

 

[cvanwey]

Not so hard if you know the reasons for those laws.

Your answer is again nonsense. I first need logic, right? Logic is required to reason, right?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

On this note, how is this postulation any different than this one...

God created life.
I'm alive and suffering a life-long painful condition with no cure.
Therefore, God is bad.

Yes?

No.

 

[cvanwey]

Your "natural evil" often affects disobedient children.

And when it doesn't? You know, like a toothache, Leukemia, cerebral palsy, a tornado, an earthquake, etc...?

Why does God impose such 'natural evil' on 'innocent' children?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Your answer is again nonsense. I first need logic, right? Logic is required to reason, right?

Many reason without logic.

 

[cvanwey]

No.

Wow, you got me there. You are quite the debater

 

[JohnEmmett]

Why does God impose such 'natural evil' on 'innocent' children?

you are giving God

• too much credit
• not enough credit

 

[cvanwey]

Many reason without logic.

Doesn't your logic need to be sound to assess which Commandments are applicable? Assuming the answer is yes, we are right back to where we started

 

[OldWiseGuy]

And when it doesn't? You know, like a toothache, Leukemia, cerebral palsy, a tornado, an earthquake, etc...?

Why does God impose such 'natural evil' on 'innocent' children?

I prefer natural consequences over "natural evil".

 

[JohnEmmett]

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[OldWiseGuy]

Wow, you got me there. You are quite the debater

I think that was all that was required for that question.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Doesn't your logic need to be sound to assess which Commandments are applicable? Assuming the answer is yes, we are right back to where we started

Logic implies deeper thought than is generally given to a topic. The scholarship on the Law is widely available.

 

[cvanwey]

I prefer natural consequences over "natural evil".

I did not ask what you prefer. I asked why God imposes or allows 'natural evil' upon the 'innocent'?

 

[cvanwey]

I think that was all that was required for that question.

No.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I asked why God imposes or allows 'natural evil' upon the 'innocent'?

people are not necessarily innocent


you do not know their past

 

[cvanwey]

Logic implies deeper thought than is generally given to a topic. The scholarship on the Law is widely available.

And around we go...

(you posted in #73) "You make a huge assumption that we think logically. If we thought logically we would obey the commandments."

(me) "If we are not completely logical, how would we know WHICH Commandments would be helpful? If we are not logical, how are we to know which of the 613 Commandments are still relevant, and which ones are not?"

You know, like how do we know, (logically), that "don't eat shrimp" is no longer a logical necessity; or is it???

 

[JohnEmmett]

You know, like how do we know, (logically), that "don't eat shrimp" is no longer a logical necessity; or is it???

atheists don't have a guide


this is why they become animals


since animals have no clue either

 

[cvanwey]

atheists don't have a guide


this is why they become animals


since animals have no clue either

Please stop responding to me. In case you've noticed, I'm not going to entertain your nonsense.