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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HMS White Star: [QB] My previous reply that explain everything (include the cure to AIDS, a easy way to solve the worlds hunger, and cheap limitless power source to provide all there worlds power needs where included [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG]) got nuked when I taugh my mom how use e-mail, she didn't know how use anything or even how to double click a mouse, O well back to the topic. Well the best reason that I have that God wouldn't intervent is "Free Will" (O no there's that word again). Well the bullet example is accurate God could do that but he doesn't. Here a question though if God where going to stop the evil where would he do it, when the bullet stuck the child, no that's not evil simply the laws of physics, when the bullet flew thur the air, not evil again laws of physics (btw in the Bible God called everything in creation Good, since the the laws of Physics where created they are good). Ok lets go further, what about when the bullet was fired, no that's just a chemical reaction, when the triger was pulled, no just a mechnical reaction, Ok when the finger pulled the triger, no still just a mechnical reaction. So when did the evil occur, simply when the decision to fire the gun with the intent to harm or kill was made. So if God wanted to stop the evil in that instantase he would have to change the person's mind, so what's wrong with that, FREE WILL, or simply doing that would show that people didn't have Free WILL. So why couldn't God just stop the bullet from hitting the kid, well simply because while the child wouldn't have been harmed, an evil still happened, because the intention was to harm a person. Example just because you don't kill a person does that mean you scott free, hell no, you get changed with attempted murder, so in the same way God to stop the evil at that time would have had to change the person's mind (actually even the thought of murdering someone is evil, so God would have to go back in time to stop the thought before it happened, by cutting out one of the person's choices, God removes the Free Will). Also Just because an action doesn't happen doesn't mean there is no evil. Example, let's say that God came down and stopped all physical violence, no killing, no punching, no boxing [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG]. Ok that ends all the evil in the world, right, wrong. Remember word can do just as much evil as actions. Ok lets say God says I will stop all the foul language in the Universe, so God has two options he can either bleep all the language out, or not allow us to think of foul language (I think the bleeping would be funny, it reminds me of what happened Cartmen on the South Park Movie when they implanted the V-Chip, "Shut up Mother$*#&%@, hey what the h*ll is going on here, what the &^%$ is going on, who the &$@$ is doing this [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG]." So is God going to stop all of evil thoughts from happening. Ok lets say God lets us think anything we what but keeps out all other evil, does that make the world and not evil place, no, because our actions are defined by our thoughts, our thoughts can be evil even if our actions are good. Example is doing the right thing for the Wrong reasons. An Example is our Action in Kosovo, which is right to save people from being hurt, but not because they are being hurt, but because it is in Europe. So we would not help a nation in let's say Africa in the same sitution, nope sorry not in Europe, is that good, nope is that evil, yes, however the action of sending troops into Kovoso is good. Ok natural Distrasters well that falls under the Second rule, which is when the Universe was created God set up rules of how the Universe worked, from there God decided to abide by his own rules (unless something he decides that it is absolutely neccessary to defy them, what reason who that be well a reason that all knowing, power God thinks of). Ok lets say there is baseball game that a person prays to God to stop a ball that is falling foul so it goes fair, this brings up an interesting problem because if the ball starts to go fair then a person on the other team prays that it will go fair, so what is God to do. Simple let the ball fall on it's current course, the same logic can be appiled to wars, games of chance and even flame wars [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG]. So simply God doesn't screw with the laws of physics unless he has to. Finally the logical method First of Two used to "prove" there is no God has one major flaw (can remember the name of the method but here an example of the flaw in action. I have discoved the secret identity of God, which is Ray Charles. Let me show the basic points: We assume; 1.) God is love, 2.) Love is blind 3.) Ray Charles is blind Therefore Ray Charles is God [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG]. The first is commonly assumed by most Christians (well at least that's the ideal [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG]. The second is assumed by most people that love is blind. The third is simple to prove Ray Charles is blind. Finally I has to be hard being God, having all this power and all this love for everyone, but not being able to save everyone, but of course he has one last chance because people can join him in heaven, still he must feel sad every time someone is hurt and he doesn't do anything about it. I would never want to have that kind of responability. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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