• @passiveaggressivesonar
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    11 day ago

    God gave us the capacity to do evil because he gave us free will. Giving free will meant doing evil is inevitable and anything different wouldn’t be free will

    He created humans with the capacity to do evil, therefore he created evil. I understand the central point, I’m disputing your belief that it’s possible to have free will and never do evil

    Can’t really represent this point without an allegory but are social insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites etc) represent always doing good? A river? Stellar fusion?

    • @FooBarrington
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      123 hours ago

      Oh, I thought you backtracked that immediately. So that means your god isn’t actually all-powerful, right? There exists some higher concept of good and evil to which he is bound, which he cannot violate?

      Who made that concept? Why is god able to do anything except create free will without evil? He created the concept of free will, why can’t he create it differently?