False. Do we prosecute people who are complicit in murder? Yes-- yes we do.
They are responsible for a failure to prevent the murder.
God is not complicit in the murder because God had no part in the murder.
God is not responsible for a failure to prevent murder. Humans are responsible to prevent murder because they have the free will to choose not to commit murder.
That means? Such a being is evil. For a failure to act in a Moral Fashion.
If this being could prevent Evil, but chooses not to? IT IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY AND ALL EVIL IT ALLOWS TO HAPPEN.
Morality does not apply to God because God is not a human. If God prevented all evil in the world God would have to override free will every time someone chose to do evil. In that case humans would just be God’s robots, puppets on a string. God might as well just take over the world like a dictator.
If God took over, people would never learn from their mistakes, which is the purpose of this earthly existence. That is not how this world is set up.
Trailblazer said: Why is God Evil just because God is not Obvious? Why should God be Obvious?
Bob the Unbeliever said: Fair. Even a 2 year old comprehends what is Fair, and what is Not Fair.
Part of Fair, is Equal Treatment.
If this god of yours exists? It is demonstratively UN-fair-- for failure to be Equally Convincing.
Since, according to the Label, it is All Knowing, it Knows what would be Needed to be Universally Convincing.
It is fair, because everyone has an equal shot at finding God.
God is not trying to be convincing because God does not
want to convince anyone that He exists. If God wanted to be universally convincing God would do it because God can do it, since God is All-Powerful. There is a good reason why God has not done so:
“He Who is the Day Spring of Truth is, no doubt, fully capable of rescuing from such remoteness wayward souls and of causing them to draw nigh unto His court and attain His Presence. “If God had pleased He had surely made all men one people.” His purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend, by virtue of their own innate powers, unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean, that thereby they who seek the Beauty of the All-Glorious may be distinguished and separated from the wayward and perverse. Thus hath it been ordained by the all-glorious and resplendent Pen… ” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 71
In that passage,
“If God had pleased He had surely made all men one people” means that God could prove to everyone that He exists. Then everyone would know God exists. God chose not to prove Himself that way because God wants everyone to search for Him and find Him by using their own free will,
“by virtue of their own innate powers.” God also wants us to have
faith, and that is why God does not offer unequivocal
proof of His existence. Those who have faith are rewarded.
I might add that for those of us who have
real faith, it is no longer faith because
we know God exists even though there is no objective proof. I cannot speak for God but I think this is what God is trying to achieve. It comes easy for some and it is more difficult for others. I mean some people have to do a lot more homework. Some people never complete the homework assignment but I do not think that is what is important to God. What is important is that you make a sincere effort. Some fruit does not ripen until it falls from the tree. If you did not know God exists in this world you can come to find out after you die.
But the fact that an ever-growing number of folk, are no longer convinced? Many of whom grew up under a culture that tacitly programmed it's children into the belief structure of 'god'?
I would say that is a Failure To Convince of Epic Proportions-- and since we know the god in question knows this is happening? It has to be a deliberate move on the part of this god.
Which is patently, and willfully Not Equal--- unfair.
God gave all human beings the ability to reason, so you might want to ask
why people are increasingly unconvinced that God exists. I already know one reason why. It is because the religions of the past, particularly Christianity, are rife with superstitious doctrines and dogmas that rational people can no longer believe in. As such, many people threw out the baby (God) with the bath water (religion). That bath water is really old, so I can see why people threw it out. The actual teachings of Jesus are still pristine but what developed out of them, the religion of Christianity with all its man-made doctrines and dogmas, does not represent what was originally revealed by God.
So, most of the decrease in belief is because people are falling away from Christianity, more and more in this modern age. God knows this is happening because God knows everything, and God wants it to happen, because until people give up their old religions they will never embrace God’s new religion, the Baha’i Faith. If it means that some people do not believe in God at all in many ways that is better than believing in a religion full of false doctrines.
God is not going to intervene and make people believe in His new religion because it has to be a choice and it has to be sought after. Anything worth having is worth the effort so God wants people to find it on their own and freely choose it.
