🔴Responding to Epicurean Paradox
(Problem of Evil)
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(Problem of Evil)
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🔶️Q1: Does evil exist?
🔹️(The Epicurean's diagram is:
1- if yes then... 2- if no then...)
🔷️Q1 Answer: Yes, but God's creating evil is not evil in itself, because it brings about greater good. Which makes goodness the end result, and achieves higher purposes,..
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🔹️(The Epicurean's diagram is:
1- if yes then... 2- if no then...)
🔷️Q1 Answer: Yes, but God's creating evil is not evil in itself, because it brings about greater good. Which makes goodness the end result, and achieves higher purposes,..
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..such as, people who deserve goodness gaining it through having patience toward evil, resisting it, and struggling against it. Or people who deserve punishment being subject to it through the sole means of their willful choice of doing evil.
🔶️Q2: Can God prevent evil?
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🔶️Q2: Can God prevent evil?
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🔷️Q2 Answer: Yes, he can prevent evil, as he's capable of everything, but he doesn't because evil contains necessary goodness as previously shown.
🔶️Q3: Does God know about all the evil?
🔷️Q3 Answer: Yes, as he's knowledgeable of everything.
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🔶️Q3: Does God know about all the evil?
🔷️Q3 Answer: Yes, as he's knowledgeable of everything.
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🔶️Q4: Does God want to prevent all evil?
🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- if yes (why is there evil) 2- if no (then God is not good and merciful)
🔷️Q4 Answer: no, because if he prevented evil, those who deserve goodness wouldn't be able to gain the goodness contained in..
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🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- if yes (why is there evil) 2- if no (then God is not good and merciful)
🔷️Q4 Answer: no, because if he prevented evil, those who deserve goodness wouldn't be able to gain the goodness contained in..
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..recognising evil and resisting and confronting it, and those who deserve punishment because of their choice and ability to commit evil won't be punished.
Because if God holds someone accountable for an evil deed this person never wanted or willed, he wouldn't be..
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Because if God holds someone accountable for an evil deed this person never wanted or willed, he wouldn't be..
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..just, and this shows that leaving room for evil to appear and be recognised is the way his mercy is given to people who deserve it, and his perfect justice is attained by punishing those who choose evil, unlike the way the diagram puts it.
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🔶️Q5: Then why is there evil?
🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- to test us (if God is all knowing, he would know what we would do if we were tested, therefore there's no need to test us).
2- because of the devil (an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good God..
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🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- to test us (if God is all knowing, he would know what we would do if we were tested, therefore there's no need to test us).
2- because of the devil (an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good God..
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..could and would destroy the devil)
🔷️Q5 Answer: Yes, to test us, and for the wisdom mentioned above. And God knows what we would do because he's all-knowing, he didn't test us in order to know, as the diagram claims, but the reason for this test is to manifest..
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🔷️Q5 Answer: Yes, to test us, and for the wisdom mentioned above. And God knows what we would do because he's all-knowing, he didn't test us in order to know, as the diagram claims, but the reason for this test is to manifest..
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..those actual deeds, in order to show us from what we know that we did out of our true free will, that we deserve the assigned judgement, and not because of God's previous knowledge of what we would choose.
So, the reason behind the test is to establish in our eyes..
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So, the reason behind the test is to establish in our eyes..
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..the merit of whichever assigned judgement, and not to help an all-knowledgeable God acquire new knowledge which he didn't have.
🔶️Q6: Can God create a world without evil?
🔷️Q6 Answer: Yes.
🔶️Q7: Why didn't God create a world without evil?
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🔶️Q6: Can God create a world without evil?
🔷️Q6 Answer: Yes.
🔶️Q7: Why didn't God create a world without evil?
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🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- to test us (If God is all-knowing, he would know what we would do if we were tested, therefore there's no need to test us).
2- to give us free will.
🔷️Q7 Answer: Both to test us and give us free will and for other wisdoms too,..
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2- to give us free will.
🔷️Q7 Answer: Both to test us and give us free will and for other wisdoms too,..
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..and the objection to the first answer was already discussed in Q5's answer.
🔶️Q8: Can God create a universe and give us free will without the existence of evil?
🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- Yes (then why didn't he create a world without evil?)
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🔶️Q8: Can God create a universe and give us free will without the existence of evil?
🔹️The diagram's answer: 1- Yes (then why didn't he create a world without evil?)
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2- No (then God is not all-powerful)
🔷️Q8 Answer: no "yes", and no "no"!
Because this is a meaningless play on words (meaning that it's an inherently impossible question, and that's why they call it the loaded question), because the true meaning of the is: "Can God create..
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🔷️Q8 Answer: no "yes", and no "no"!
Because this is a meaningless play on words (meaning that it's an inherently impossible question, and that's why they call it the loaded question), because the true meaning of the is: "Can God create..
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..a world and give us free will to choose between good and evil, but without free will to choose evil?",
So, the question proves the existence of free choice to choose evil, then it denies the need for its existence, which makes the end result zero 0.
So, the question proves the existence of free choice to choose evil, then it denies the need for its existence, which makes the end result zero 0.
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