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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Yeah, it's like when a plane crashes and one person survives, it's a "miracle" but when a plane lands safely with no problem.. that's just everyday stuff. White star, you just GOTTA learn to use smaller paragraphs. Or shorter sentences. Anyway, evil occurs when harm is done. I'm not asking God to stop EVERYTHING that causes pain (that's a slippery-slope argument), just those things that cause needless suffering. Just fatal accidents. Just things that kill children. How hard can it be to find a way around that when you're Omniscient? I mean, God says He protects His followers, but from all of what I've seen, (like that Tornado that blew through a church in Kansas and killed an elementary-school-aged choir girl) they have to already be dead (in which case their resurrected souls are supposed to be invulnerable anyway, so what's the point?) to be afforded this. And I still can't see how you can have Free Will in a Universe wherein exists a being who, through omniscience, already knows every decision you're ever going to make, and the outcome. (which is the very DEFINITION of Omniscience = knows EVERYTHING past, present, and future included, unless you want to deny that God is omniscient, or redefine what "omniscient" means.) Can you surprise an omniscient being? Can someone who KNOWS beyond a shadow of a doubt that something MUST happen be justified in being angry when it does? On the gripping hand, if everything happens for a reason, why can't we at least be told what that reason is? And why do so many events have to be negative rather than positive? Why can't the bullet MISS "for a reason?" Why couldn't the car NOT have slid on ice "for a reason?" Why couldn't the bit of metal have bent 5 centimeters to the LEFT instead of the right "for a reason?" I mean, if there was some Greater Reason that I had to watch my Imzadi bleed to death, I'd sure like to know it, because the only lasting change it had on ME was I converted to "No Involved Deity"-ism. That and I'm a much darker person now. I'd chalk that up as a loss for the Big Guy. And now I've said too much, and made myself angry again. Yes, I'm angry. But I'm angry for a lot more than one person who I happen to have known. I'd rather believe in nothingness than a God who would allow some of the things that happen to happen. I'd rather believe in nothingness than a God who would let a mother sell her own 3-year-old daughter to two perverts down the street for sex. I'd rather believe in nothingness than a God who inflicts the SAME daughter with migraines, interstitial cystitis, cervical vertebrae that nearly cause her to lose her arms, and then allows her to be raped while she's in college. FOR NO GOOD REASON. If this be treason... I will make the most of it. If there is a God, I want some concrete answers from Him. Soon. Just so I know whose side to be on when the Last Battle comes. Now you know why I'm the nicest "of the damned." *exits ranting mode* breathe...breathe... 'S okay, I'm all better now. Inner Demon exorcism over. Standing down from Red Alert. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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