quote:Originally posted by Punkin:
Maybe, Mr. Bill, was giving man free will a mistake? Why didn't God just make us to always do the right things?
“Free will” is a key to Christian apologia. The question, “Why does an omnipotent, omniscient, all-merciful deity allow human suffering,“ is perplexing and embarrassing to the God-fearing. The logical answer is that a rational and loving god would not allow human and animal suffering.
Hence, apologists concocted the notion of “free will.” God loves us so much that he allows us to do what we want, and when we do bad things it is because of God’s loving gift of free will. This is an inane justification for God’s failings.
In the first place millions of children die of malnutrition, not because of their own action or inaction, but because of the lack of care from adults. Are we really to believe that God loved the Nazis so much that he gave them the free will to slaughter 6 million Jews. Then there is the issue of animal suffering. Were they endowed with “free will?”
This excuse for God’s ineptness is as ridiculous as saying, “I love my child so much that I gave him the freedom to run out in the traffic and get hit by a car.” But then there is nothing sensible about the God myth.
Then there is always the possibility that God derives great delight from watching humans and animals torture, mame and kill each other.