hobelim , you have been called out.
I will be arguing the position that God is not good and all powerful. hobelim - if he chooses to accept this challenge - will be forced to argue that God is good and all powerful.
Hobelim, do you believe that God good?
The following are my beliefs which in part come from my faith. I believe in Divine Providence. Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end. Please feel free to discuss.
Creation has its own goodness and proper...
So if God didn't create evil, why does God allow evil to exist?
No one really knows...
Maybe because he is seeking certain outcomes under certain conditions.
Or maybe the certain outcomes he is seeking can only be achieved through certain conditions.
Or maybe good has no meaning if one is...
The simple answer is that God didn't create evil.
Everything God created is good.
Evil is not extant. Evil doesn't exist in and of itself.
Evil is the absence of good, just as cold is the absence of heat, and darkness is the absence of light.
God does not destroy what He creates. How do I know? Well... first of all He has given us a Natural Law which tells us He does not destroy what He creates; The First Law of Thermodynamics which states that matter and energy cannot be destroyed or created. Since time and space were created...
The purpose of the universe is to create beings that know and create. It is the nature of intelligence to create intelligence. As cold is the absence of heat and darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good. We know from our own experiences that men do evil not for evil's sake...