I believe that God is responsible for creating a material world in which He
knew there would be suffering. God is also responsible for our fate because God determines our fate. God is also responsible for death because God created life that is subject to death.
It is there that God’s responsibility ends. God is not responsible for viruses or natural disasters because He does not cause them directly. God is not responsible for our moral choices, so God is not responsible for human free will choices that cause evil in the world. Moreover, it is not God's responsibility for stopping people from making those choices.
Nope.
It doesn't follow that god should do anything because it can do everything.
It follows from the attribute "omnibenevolent". Someone who is omnibenevolent has to prevent suffering from happening (if they easily can) by definition, not by demand.
I do not agree that God
has to do that or else He is not omnibenevolent, because there could be a reason for the suffering that we are unaware of and might not realize until after we die.
That said, I am not buying off on God being omnibenevolent because what I see in the world does not indicate that He is, so the only thing we have to go by are scriptures that describe God as such.
It is only illogical if you misrepresent the argument.
You are correct, but I have heard this argument from atheists hundreds of times, so I am not misrepresenting it. You are the first person in eight years since I have been posting on forums that even recognized that it is illogical illogical, so you get the door prize.
Usually the form the argument takes is something like this: “God knows what I would need in order to believe that He exists, and God is omnipotent so God has the power to convince me, so it is not my fault I do not believe in God, because God could convince me if He wanted to.”
Here is another argument I have heard hundreds of times: “If an omnipotent God existed He
could communicate directly to everyone instead of using Messengers to communicate. The atheist who repeated that hundreds of times even took it a step further and said that if God existed God
would communicate directly to everyone; so the mere fact that we do not observe God doing that means God most likely does not exist.”
In other words, if God existed, God would do exactly what I expect and want Him to do.