First off the premise is that there is a god. If you don't believe in the possibility of there being a god then this question is not for you.
Ok my question is not "if there is a god why do bad things happen"
My question is "if there is a god why do evil people exist"
Now before i get the "free choice" business thrown in my face yet again please hear me out.
I'm expressing this in a semialgebraic form because there are so many variables and even if i did make out a specific story for it then people would get hung up on the details instead of my point.
I hope it doesn't sound too confusing.
What you experience = life = who you are and what choices you make with your free choice
Variables:
A=soul in question
D=evil person type/outcome-no heaven
E=good person type/outcome- heaven
Life 1 - X
Life 2 - Y
so A+X =D
but A+y might =E
In other words. Same original soul- Different life. Different person. Different choices made.
Basically speaking if god is omnipotent and omniscient.
Why doesn't he just create the environment for each of us that we would need so that we can choose on our own the good path?
I mean people manipulate each others environment all the time. Much of what we do and say affects the decisions of others. Priests believe this. They believe they can save people else they wouldn't do it.
So if humans can make that much of a difference a omnipotent and omniscient god should be able to do to the nth degree more.
This conundrum leads me to believe if a god does exist he couldn't be omniscient omnipotent all compassionate etc all at the same time
Ok my question is not "if there is a god why do bad things happen"
My question is "if there is a god why do evil people exist"
Now before i get the "free choice" business thrown in my face yet again please hear me out.
I'm expressing this in a semialgebraic form because there are so many variables and even if i did make out a specific story for it then people would get hung up on the details instead of my point.
I hope it doesn't sound too confusing.
What you experience = life = who you are and what choices you make with your free choice
Variables:
A=soul in question
D=evil person type/outcome-no heaven
E=good person type/outcome- heaven
Life 1 - X
Life 2 - Y
so A+X =D
but A+y might =E
In other words. Same original soul- Different life. Different person. Different choices made.
Basically speaking if god is omnipotent and omniscient.
Why doesn't he just create the environment for each of us that we would need so that we can choose on our own the good path?
I mean people manipulate each others environment all the time. Much of what we do and say affects the decisions of others. Priests believe this. They believe they can save people else they wouldn't do it.
So if humans can make that much of a difference a omnipotent and omniscient god should be able to do to the nth degree more.
This conundrum leads me to believe if a god does exist he couldn't be omniscient omnipotent all compassionate etc all at the same time
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