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If we were built properly we would choose not to mess up.We mess up ourselves, we start this change, we change paths, we ruin ourselves.
Yes, rocks would agree. But more animate and creative lifeforms might not. Look at people who don't want anything that may offend them. They live life in a bubble where no change is possible. Progress can only be made through conflict and the universe is built upon just that. In that way all sorts can find a place they may fit in. Chaos is essential to create balance but God wanted us to realize that our tampering with it is not.If we were built properly we would choose not to mess up.
See, that is part of the problem I was trying to bring up... and there just isn't an answer from the religious side.Yes, rocks would agree. But more animate and creative lifeforms might not. Look at people who don't want anything that may offend them. They live life in a bubble where no change is possible. Progress can only be made through conflict and the universe is built upon just that. In that way all sorts can find a place they may fit in. Chaos is essential but God wanted us to realize that our tampering with it is not.
Only moves the problem a step further back. And it doesn't even try to answer the question of "why all that?"Have you considered the world was originally made fallen by a fallen entity and there was a reason man was originally kept separate from it before choosing to also follow the path of the previously fallen entities?
What is the opposite of God?Perhaps because nothing exists without an opposite.
Only moves the problem a step further back. And it doesn't even try to answer the question of "why all that?"
For example: an alternative to consider: So, "the world" was "made fallen" by a "fallen entity". Why does this "fallen entity" exist? Why did it have the option to "fall"... when this option is not required for either the initial or desired state?
But, ok, it happened.
So why use this "fallen world" to continue? Why have "man" be a part of this "fallen world" at all? Why not start over?
There is no reason. No necessity. All you can do is argue from: "it is, so it must be". And that isn't only not a very compelling reasoning, it directly contradicts the foundational system of claims.
Which, as we have already discussed in this thread, God does not have. So... God is a robot.Free will. If you don't have a choice between Good and evil then you are a robot.
Not so. God is all.Oh, come on. You're not even trying anymore.
That would make "opposite" and "same" synonyms. They're antonyms. Your answer is incorrect.God. Same as what is the opposite of you. You.
God is just as evil as He is good?Not so. God is all.
All of that would be part of "all"... and thus would have to apply to "God" as well.Not so. God is all.
We (as extensions of God) are capable of either direction and often combine the two to suit our wants, regardless of how it affects others especially when that connection to God has been purposely switched off in favour of our own will.
Which, as we have already discussed in this thread, God does not have. So... God is a robot.
But regardless that doesn't answer the question: why is that necessary?
The chain of argumentation from your side is always the same:
This is so, so there must be a good reason for it. And the reason is XYZ... (which is contradicted by other arguments used in the system).
So you claim. But there is no good reason for it to be so. Why does God need us to realise something through the language of suffering?Progress can only be made through conflict and the universe is built upon just that. In that way all sorts can find a place they may fit in. Chaos is essential to create balance but God wanted us to realize that our tampering with it is not.
That's not quite the same, is it?No God is not a robot. He allowed evil or the devil to exist.
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