Sorry, I think I’m not understanding your point correctly. I agree that we should try to act morally, but that isn’t related to the argument of the post.
Very concretely: Your god created everything, including the very concept of evil. Since he is all-powerful, he must be able to create the exact same world, but without evil. We agree so far, right?
So why isn’t the logical conclusion that he chose to create evil?
Was the invention of electricity evil because it created the electric chair or was it good because it created home heating? God created free will, we chose to do evil with it. Being prescient he would have known what we would choose to do with it and still created us anyway, allowing both good and evil to happen. Can we agree on that part?
Tell me how evil was his creation and not ours. Give me an example of such a thing
Being prescient he would have known what we would choose to do with it and still created us anyway, allowing both good and evil to happen. Can we agree on that part?
Yes, we can agree on that! Since your god is all-mighty, he specifically chose to create us so we’d create the electric chair. He could have created us slightly differently so we’d still create home heating without creating the electric chair, but he chose to make us do both.
So god created all evil. After all, he could have created us without the capacity for evil. Had he not created the concept of evil, we wouldn’t even have the option.
Tell me how evil was his creation and not ours. Give me an example of such a thing
God created us and gave us the capacity to do evil. He could have created us without the capacity to do evil (since he’s all-mighty). Literally everything is his creation, is it not?
Do you believe humanity is all evil with no redeeming qualities? If yes then I get why you would think that. If no, then he created us for BOTH the good and the bad
Anyone can choose to stop doing evil. If they have free will then it’s a choice they made, not god. Can we agree on that?
No, I don’t think that humanity is all evil. But I feel like you’re dodging the central question I’m asking, because you keep bringing up that we can also do good.
God created good and evil, and he created us with the capacity to do good and evil, while he had the explicit knowledge that we’d do evil. He could have also chosen to only create good, and to create us with the capacity to only do good. Why did he create both good and evil, instead of only good?
Initially you stated that good and evil are necessary for free will, but you immediately backtracked on that. Since then you keep repeating that humans do evil, but that’s not relevant to what I’m asking. Please try not to use any allegories or to reframe my question. Just try to answer: “God gave us the capacity to do evil, because…”
God gave us the capacity to do evil because he gave us free will. Giving free will meant doing evil is inevitable and anything different wouldn’t be free will
He created humans with the capacity to do evil, therefore he created evil. I understand the central point, I’m disputing your belief that it’s possible to have free will and never do evil
Can’t really represent this point without an allegory but are social insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites etc) represent always doing good? A river? Stellar fusion?
Oh, I thought you backtracked that immediately. So that means your god isn’t actually all-powerful, right? There exists some higher concept of good and evil to which he is bound, which he cannot violate?
Who made that concept? Why is god able to do anything except create free will without evil? He created the concept of free will, why can’t he create it differently?
Sorry, I think I’m not understanding your point correctly. I agree that we should try to act morally, but that isn’t related to the argument of the post.
Very concretely: Your god created everything, including the very concept of evil. Since he is all-powerful, he must be able to create the exact same world, but without evil. We agree so far, right?
So why isn’t the logical conclusion that he chose to create evil?
Was the invention of electricity evil because it created the electric chair or was it good because it created home heating? God created free will, we chose to do evil with it. Being prescient he would have known what we would choose to do with it and still created us anyway, allowing both good and evil to happen. Can we agree on that part?
Tell me how evil was his creation and not ours. Give me an example of such a thing
Yes, we can agree on that! Since your god is all-mighty, he specifically chose to create us so we’d create the electric chair. He could have created us slightly differently so we’d still create home heating without creating the electric chair, but he chose to make us do both.
So god created all evil. After all, he could have created us without the capacity for evil. Had he not created the concept of evil, we wouldn’t even have the option.
God created us and gave us the capacity to do evil. He could have created us without the capacity to do evil (since he’s all-mighty). Literally everything is his creation, is it not?
Do you believe humanity is all evil with no redeeming qualities? If yes then I get why you would think that. If no, then he created us for BOTH the good and the bad
Anyone can choose to stop doing evil. If they have free will then it’s a choice they made, not god. Can we agree on that?
No, I don’t think that humanity is all evil. But I feel like you’re dodging the central question I’m asking, because you keep bringing up that we can also do good.
God created good and evil, and he created us with the capacity to do good and evil, while he had the explicit knowledge that we’d do evil. He could have also chosen to only create good, and to create us with the capacity to only do good. Why did he create both good and evil, instead of only good?
Initially you stated that good and evil are necessary for free will, but you immediately backtracked on that. Since then you keep repeating that humans do evil, but that’s not relevant to what I’m asking. Please try not to use any allegories or to reframe my question. Just try to answer: “God gave us the capacity to do evil, because…”
God gave us the capacity to do evil because he gave us free will. Giving free will meant doing evil is inevitable and anything different wouldn’t be free will
He created humans with the capacity to do evil, therefore he created evil. I understand the central point, I’m disputing your belief that it’s possible to have free will and never do evil
Can’t really represent this point without an allegory but are social insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites etc) represent always doing good? A river? Stellar fusion?
Oh, I thought you backtracked that immediately. So that means your god isn’t actually all-powerful, right? There exists some higher concept of good and evil to which he is bound, which he cannot violate?
Who made that concept? Why is god able to do anything except create free will without evil? He created the concept of free will, why can’t he create it differently?