The Problem of Evil

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StrangeSavant

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Please do not take this to be blasphemous or anti-Christian and I have a true desire toward inquiry on this matter. Moreover, I have only discussed this with people of like mind to myself and wanted to see what you guys thought. I am fairly certain that you have either thought about this before, or it has been presented to you as it is a legitimate issue concerning the nature of God.

This video lacks tact at times, but adequately covers all the topics on this issue. Please watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmjFVP6qkiI


I would like to have a civil discussion about this and get your authentic opinion on the matter. Please do not feel the need to hold back.
 
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well they forgot to cover one thing which is the true thing which they can't answer . so is probably the reason they didn't discuss it, there is no such thing as cold, cold is merely the absence/lack of heat. the colder it is,is due to the lack of heat . coldness can only exist when there is no heat . same thing with evil, there is no such thing as evil, rather evil is the direct result from absence/lack of goodness. Light is good, darkness is evil. take a complete total dark room and light the smallest candle, darkness has to flee! evil can only exist when there is no goodness the less goodness the greater the evil, the greater goodness the less evil. see the fact is not that evil exists due to the absence of God , because there is no absence of God, He is everywhere, the truth which again they did not cover , for that can't cover the truth, is evil exists due the lack of goodness. where there is light/goodness there can be no darkness/ evil only when we take away goodness/ light can evil/darkness exist . sometimes we need to spend more time in His word and less time studying what satan has to offer. no we do not need to study evil to know what evil is. for we should rely on the wisdom of God not our own understanding, He will teach us what we need to know from His word !!!!!



1jo 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man TEACH you: but as the same anointing TEACHeth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
 
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But that still doesn't explain why God doesn't intervene. Seems like it would be so simple.

I think the main point here is that God is either not all powerful, or not all good. I'm going to favor the latter at this particular conjuncture if simply for Isaiah 45:7.
 
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The problem of evil is solved when you understand two things...we are made in God's image and you yourself are evil...until you recognize that this is the cause of all evils then you won't discern correctly...God can only say you are either bring formed in his image or you're not...if it is the latter than no choice but to destroy you unless you repent...if the former than the truth stands that you are or have been reformed in Christ's image.

How can you be considered made in God's image when you are evil and insist on sin? Yet because we are made in god's image, we of necessity have the power to reek the havok on the world that you see...

You really should read the Bible though...

A lto of it starts making sense...the same question you have they had about a tower that fell kind of sporadically on some gentiles I think, and then also some gentile blood they mingled with their sacrifices...

Jesus' response, "Do you think they were greter sinners than you? I tell you no! But unless you repent you will all likewise perish..."

So stop complaining about evil in the world and focus on eliminating the evil in your heart, and then you can see clearly to start cleaning up this world...

God bless and may the Lord enlighten you to the light of his presence.
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Thaddaeus

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StrangeSavant said:
But that still doesn't explain why God doesn't intervene. Seems like it would be so simple.

I think the main point here is that God is either not all powerful, or not all good. I'm going to favor the latter at this particular conjuncture if simply for Isaiah 45:7.
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You are missing the whole point of mercy and Grace. we do have free will if we didn't have free will we would always do evil that is our nature. we don't know and can't know God thoughts or His ways. But If God wanted a human race that would always serve Him, He could have made it that way. why didn't He, that not my place or your place to ask, For He Is God, He made it the way He wanted It. but logically if you were God would you want a human race that served you because thats the way you made it or would you want them to serve you because they wanted to. which would be more rewarding for you , to know that they serve you because they have to , or because that is their heart's desire. to know that they love you because you made them to , or that they love you because they realized how much you loved them. the video did point what a good point, If God had made heaven in earth the same then there would be no point in leaving earth and going to heaven so maybe that is why God made it the way He did. I think this video is very anti- God . If God had not allowed us free will then there would be no point for heaven, this earth is temporal this body is temporal, these temporal things pass away, God is not concern about the temporal things but rather the soul is His concern and he has shown this by giving His most precious thing to save us. if we didn't have free will then all of us would Burn in hell. I think you have already made up your mind on this and are trying to persuade some others.
let me say this, if you are right there is no God, but I believe there is a God I do good, i help people, I tell them that God loves them and has made a way for them to come to where He is at, what harm have I done, so I lied to them I was wrong , they die, they go to the grave that's it. I made a better place for some to live. you on the other hand if there is a God , by some wicked video you persuade people that there is no God, They live the best they can some may help others, it dont' really matter, though for according to you we all go to the same place the Grave, but you lied , you were wrong there is a God you have just drugged people into hell with you. so why try to convince people that there is no God cause you don't want to lie to them( big deal their is no God to judge you), and how have you helped them. your truth can not help them in anyway. but my truth will set them free to live the way they want to, to help others, to love one another to lead them to a better place through Jesus Christ. If I am going to err sir I would rather err on the side of righteousness over unrighteousness. How do we better the world by proving(if we could) that there is no God, how do we improve the world by saying there is a God, I say there is a God and it is not my place being His creation to question anything on why He did it this way
De 30:15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
 
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