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Originally Posted by rcheshire
Blaming God for all the bad in the world avoids admitting to the source of it don't you think - people.
If God gave us free will - the ability to choose - that can be applied to good or bad. I don't see the confusion. People do bad things, to advantage themselves and to disadvantage others...
...the question is what will you do - you have a choice, and that is surely the mark.
Because others do not endeavour toward good doesn't make God bad. It just means that we have been given free will, the freedom to choose in all its expression - would you have your will removed. Put it to good instead of evil.
The problem is that one without the other is not really freedom.
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There is huge confusion. If there is true choice, then God is irrelivant, redundant (and is indeed bad or impotent allowing such an equal choice) .
God loves everyone so is supposedly a positive influence. David Attenbrough was asked if he believed in God. He replied. There is a parasite that exclusively lives behind African childrens eyes that slowley, eventually causes a very painfull blindness. What possible notion of love or choice could that be attributed too. Davids conclusion was that God was either non existant or truly evil.