Quote:
Avoir_Adorer wrote:
How can you represent goodness if you allow evil? How could you be the ultimate saint and yet be willfully ignorant towards millions of people screaming for peace from their suffering?
My Response...
There was no good and evil before Adam and Eve ate from "the tree of the knowledge of good & evil." There just simply was earth and nature. There was no law, because it was not necessary. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from the tree because of the free will given to them (us) by God. We (modern human beings) created good and evil. God is not contradictory. We are just imperfect.
So now you ask, "why would God make something that was imperfect?" Like I said earlier we WERE perfect until we ate (from the tree), the free will God gave us led to our imperfections.
Also I don't believe in predestination, and that is why God did not know we would eventually eat from the tree. If you think about that the rest of Christianity kinda comes into perspective. It explains why God had to communicate with us and give us "commandments"(Laws), and basically everything else. It just dosen't answer the question of his existence. Which for me is a matter of faith and not Science.
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But I have a question for myself which I cannot answer..... If were perfect, then how did we become imperfect?
If something is perfect doesn't that kinda mean it is and always will be perfect, I dunno, I've got my self into a huge, sticky mental web that I can't pull myself out of.
Here's the link to the other forum if you want to read the whole discussion.
http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb...c.php?t=156590
My name there is 10-Planets