Don't tell God what he can't do!
Well of course, God doesn't
have to do things like "make human beings incapable of genocide". The point is that, being the divine creator of all things, that would imply he has the
ability to do so. If he has that ability, but doesn't, then for whatever reason, he prefers a world where genocide takes place. Your response seems to be that the only possible way to remove genocide is by denying human beings all choices, and making them some kind of robot. So, this whole "choice/free will" thing is more important to God apparently than preventing genocide. Which is fine. I just don't see how that's a point in God's favor :lol
Never mind the fact that when genocide occurs, it's pretty obvious that the victim's "free will" is being denied. But somehow, that never seems to factor into these discussions.
Human limitations
placed on us by God. Assuming you think God created us. I'm just wondering why it's apparently ok to prevent human beings the choice of "flying to the moon by flapping my arms", but it's not ok to prevent human beings from "committing genocide".
Once again, if we're assuming that God set up this world and everything in it, essentially nothing happens without his "permission".
haha. Although I suppose that's pretty much what happened, if one accepts the biblical account of the flood. I'm guessing you don't, since you're not a "literalist" though.
Snappy retorts are fun!
Wait, did Microsoft manufacture the PS3 controller, and did Microsoft also knowingly create human beings with the propensity to throw controllers? That would make it a more accurate analogy.
But it's a natural world we live in is supposedly
created by god. Maybe you're a Christian who doesn't think God knowingly created the universe and our planet?
Is the only possibly way the all powerful creator of the universe can prevent child rape is to completely remove all instances of sex and emotions?
I think the larger point here that is throwing me off is that you're taking the world as it is now, and keep acting as if God is limited by it. Your God doesn't seem that godly all of a sudden.
You seem to be discussing this as if God had no hand in setting up the world, human beings, its "rules" and so on and so forth. Instead, God fiddled with things way back when, and then Planet Earth and human beings came about and did all those unforeseen surprising things that God just never saw coming. If so, then honestly, none of the points I've raised really apply to you. They just apply to those other millions of Christians who do think God can do whatever he wants and made everything
I would say that it's rational to think that if God actually thinks genocide is a "bad" thing, has the simple ability to keep it from happening, yet let's it happen anyway, then that means that genocide actually isn't tops on his list of priorities. Of course, it's certainly possible that God doesn't think genocide is a bad thing. If one believes the OT and the flood story, he committed it himself, after all.
I can't single-handedly stop genocide. The president of the United States, though not all powerful, can certainly influence far more things than I ever could to prevent some types of genocide. The Divine Creator of All Existence certainly could prevent it from even being on the list of possible human actions...if he wanted to.
The creator modifying his own creation to not do a specific action = coddling? Never mind that you're once again taking the world
now and acting as if God has to fit into that. When what most people have been taught is that God is the one who
set things up in the first place.
Of course, maybe all those millions of Christians who believe that are wrong, and you actually have the correct version of God. As I always ask...how is this determined?
So what's taking so long? Is God plotting his strategy? Getting the kinks worked out? Going through some test runs first?
And if peace will eventually be on Earth, than that means it's certainly possible for a planet Earth to exist that is 100% peaceful. So, the reason for not just making that world in the first place is...?
Where do Satan and Human beings come from?
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