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Search results for query: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

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  1. Brian2

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    A&E story shows that humans wanted to be free to choose their own path even when we know God is going to judge us. The bigger picture has also angels who have chosen to go their own way also. It is all God's creation and God has chosen His way of getting rid of evil in His creation and it...
  2. Copernicus

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Yes, because the future is undetermined from the perspective of the person making the choices. My problem with your putative deity is that he freely chooses to punish his creations for making choices he doesn't want them to make but could prevent them from making. But, if God lacks free will...
  3. 9-10ths_Penguin

    What "if" you are wrong

    Correct. It's what I said. That's just one narrow case of the larger question: why are the actions of an "all-powerful and all-knowing" God entirely consistent with God not existing at all? Why doesn't God prevent evil? Ultimately, it's because that would imply the existence of a God that...
  4. an anarchist

    Assumptions and inductions about the (metaphysical) world.

    TLDR: Is it possible to arrive at metaphysical truths through inductive reasoning? Is it in fact neccesary to use inductive reasoning? Science aside, what can we hypothesize about the world and the metaphysics of it? I mean, spirituality and religion is more than just guesswork. Some people...
  5. Hermit Philosopher

    What is God's highest priority?

    From a physical (material/ manifested/ incarnated/ human) point of view, your statement is valid and to many, that is how it is: either there is no “god” or there is one and it’s evil. But there are many other ways of thinking about this. For example, from a metaphysical perspective: if one...
  6. Estro Felino

    God is love and just

    God is not Omnipotent. He can't prevent anyone from doing evil. Unfortunately the Romans mistranslated the word Pantokrator that means the one who rules over everything. But they used Omnipotens (Almighty) and they should have used the Latin word Omniregens instead.
  7. Tinkerpeach

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    There are plenty of people who you consider good that have no problem walking into their backyard and spraying RAID on an ant colony causing tens of thousands of creatures to suffer and die a horrible death. “But they are just dumb ants”, you claim Well we are far closer to an ant then we will...
  8. Viker

    Is science interested in finding God ?

    I've pointed out in the past that science doesn't get into the business of investigating God or gods existence. It could be that god is so incoherently defined that they don't know where to start. It could be that it is a presumption and unfalsifiable... scientists likely overlook such things to...
  9. muhammad_isa

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    What does that even mean .. "directly choose" ? No evil, no test. No test, no appreciation of what it even means. Negative thinking.. satan only wishes to sow doubt .. to divert us from a path of righteousness. G-d does not wish us to choose evil over good .. but He allows it .. not for ever...
  10. It Aint Necessarily So

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    ...evils into the world. Such a god cannot be tri-omni. As Epicurus noted, “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why...
  11. InChrist

    Theists, please tell me why you believe murder is wrong.

    I thought about addressing some of your questions and other points, like; “why would God harden Pharaoh's heart” or “why would God create homosexuals”, but on second thought since you’ve repeatedly stated your view that the biblical accounts are nothing but mythology, why bother? If you think...
  12. Valjean

    Theists, please tell me why you believe murder is wrong.

    The Biblical accounts are often unevidenced. They're mythology. Even if true, they reflect an evil God commanding a psychopathic, rapacious, imperialist society. Have you no conscience? Have you no personal morals? Have you no compassion? Does your God not value these things? If a nation did...
  13. Thrillobyte

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    Wait a second, Trail. Most of these 5 million kids are dying of diseases that GOD brought about. Humans have nothing to do with it. Full blame lands on God's doorstep. Nor can humans do a thing about the natural disasters that kill millions of people every decade whose responsiblity also lands...
  14. Trailblazer

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    If you want to hate God that is your choice, as I said in my previous post, but don't pretend it is based upon logic and reason. It is based upon sheer emotion, that is all it is based upon. "Mommy, you did not give me my cookie so I hate you mommy!" God plays no games, it is only humans...
  15. Thrillobyte

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    If God is able to prevent evil on an abused 3 year old who is daily being raped and tortured but simply stands by and watches it without doing something, then God is the most evil entity in the universe--worse than Satan ever thought of being. I have more respect for Satan since he doesn't pla...
  16. Trailblazer

    Without trust in God, I would have no hope

    God is able but not willing to prevent evil, since God wants humans to prevent their own evil since they are the cause of evil. Why should God prevent what humans cause? "Because God is omnipotent" is not an answer. God could also eliminate all life on earth in a heartbeat "because God is...
  17. Spiderman

    Meadow Jade Pollack, Parkland Messiah!

    This is a journal. It is not a blog. Try not to see it as preaching, proselytizing, but venting, not seeking converts, but maybe insights?. The first post is angry, emotional. But I have been to hell and back, and I found a miracle worker, who had enormous potential, wanted to be a lawyer...
  18. Treasure Hunter

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    It’s the first one. He has the potential to be all powerful but is currently being overpowered by the enemy, which is why he sends the best part of himself, his son, into the world in order to find a way to do his will.
  19. Starlight

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    Most of evil on this planet earth is because of humans. God gave humans free will. starvation could stop tomorrow if all humans cooperated. I believe God gave us free will because God is loving. God do not want someone to be forced to love him. I also believe this life is also a test. Like a...
  20. King Phenomenon

    universal salvation makes no sense without reincarnation

    This is weird.
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