This is a 1v1 match between bulldog and myself. It's not a free for all. Unless you are Bulldog please don't add your comments to this thread.
BULLDOG believes that God is a baby killer.
I will be arguing that it cannot be said that God directly creates evil, or has the direct intention to produce evil because God only produces existence. All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them. Man himself is the author of this class of evils.
So bulldog, make your case for God the baby killer and I will show you how illogical your argument really is.
Or you can run away - which is what I expect you will do.
BULLDOG believes that God is a baby killer.
I will be arguing that it cannot be said that God directly creates evil, or has the direct intention to produce evil because God only produces existence. All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them. Man himself is the author of this class of evils.
So bulldog, make your case for God the baby killer and I will show you how illogical your argument really is.
Or you can run away - which is what I expect you will do.