Comments on: Tract #65: What Is the Problem of Evil? http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/01/26/tract-65-what-is-the-problem-of-evil/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ben http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/01/26/tract-65-what-is-the-problem-of-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Ben Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:38:02 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1451#comment-1045 Well,what if God wanted to show his great power by letting evil exist? God, with infinite power, could destroy all the evil in the world but how much would that do for him. Wouldn’t there need to be a contrast from good to evil for either to be recognized? that’s how we can tell black from white, heat from cold, or light from darkness. If everything was one extreme we wouldn’t know there to be a difference.
In the article it also says something about God doing small things to not interfere with free will. God being the epitome of good does your life,or anybody else’s life, never have anything good in it have you heard every lie about you, lies going unheard, has a wanted man on the street never been recognized, has an assassination ever occurred that has eliminated a bad person? Ergo, i think he does do things like that…

For God not being infinitely loving. Is God not loving because he provided a way out of sin/evil through Jesus? is god not as loving to while in life the ability to go to him for protection? So, yes bad things happen but one he gives a way through it and two he allows an escape from it.

Yes, i am stating what i know from the Bible and logic. I am expecting you to say i got it from the Bible anyways and that the Bible can not be proven true or it’s wrong…etc. So your statements are wrong… I hope not. How many times has the Bible been proven true… Tell me when it hasn’t don’t tell me to say when it has. Stories of when it has been proven false are always more interesting. So my understanding is not on faith entirely it’s on the faith of the foundation of knowledge i have learned not anywhere close to the “you just gotta have faith” slogan…

]]> By: Erik http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2010/01/26/tract-65-what-is-the-problem-of-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Erik Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:49:52 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1451#comment-1041 I brought up this contradiction in my CCD class when I was 10. When the teacher responded “Faith” I knew I was done.

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