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God is cruel
I’ve been thinking.
God is omniscient, right? This means he knows everything. He knows what’s going to happen and when. He knows everything about the past,the present and the future.
We have free will, right? This means we can do as we choose and God has no control over what we decide.
Because God knows everything, he knows in advance what we will choose. He knew what the bad guys - and there are plenty of them - were going to do, but he still went ahead and created them. He knew they would burn in hell for all eternity because of the choices he knew they were going to make.
God deliberately made people, knowing that they would go straight to hell, would not pass go, would not collect £200 and would suffer for all eternity (minus the eternity before they died, of course).
Why would he do that?
This entry was posted on Thursday 5th June, 2008 ~ 10.29am BST and is filed under Life, the universe and everything and is tagged with free will, gods, omniscience. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Tuesday 10th June, 2008 ~ 4.50am BST
I think the answer is God only knows.
I guess it must be hard not to interfere as it would take Godlike control not to.
Tuesday 10th June, 2008 ~ 3.02pm BST
Yeah, God must know, that’s for certain, what with him being omniscient and everything
But if he’s refraining from interfering, that implies that there’s something going wrong that needs to be interfered with. That means there’s a flaw in what God’s up to. So he’s actually either cruel or incompetent.
Tuesday 24th June, 2008 ~ 12.35pm BST
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Tuesday 24th June, 2008 ~ 9.29pm BST
ah but maybe you have to let bad stuff happen for good stuff to emerge. Like bush fires make room for new growth, maybe if mankind wipes itself out and a new peace loving animal will become the master race…….who am I kidding it’ll be the ones with the biggest claws and teeth!