Some hope. I'm gonna share a very private and intimate message with all of you.
My wife is largely apolitical and her red pill pretty much consisted of just believing that orange man isn't that bad. After the november election I started digging for the truth, discovered Q, took the red pill, discovered pizza gate.
My wife isn't very religious, but she is very spiritual with a strong sixth sense, if that makes sense.
I walked away from God a decade ago. Discovering how deep evil truly goes sent me back to him. I haven't told my wife much, just little bits here and there. However she's seen me reading the Bible at night, she's seen me praying and she's seen me crying as I pray for the kids. All I've told her about it is that the truth scared the living day lights out of me and it's worse than she can imagine.
Today she sent me this message (I would screenshot it, but it's in Afrikaans, our native language) "I'm really glad that there are people, who like you, question things and start waking up. It's brought a very positive change in you in general, in our relationship and in our lives. I know you discovered horrifying things and it haunts you, but it really feels to me as if a light has entered your life and our relationship. The best way I can describe it is if someone opened a door oor a window to let light in. I'm so grateful and privaleged to know you are willing to wade through so much horrible info and absorb it cause you want to find the truth. I love you and I couldn't ask for a better husband."
My point being, I dunno your circumstances, or what has transpired in your life. But let the awakening draw you closer to God and let that light change the people around you. Sometimes you can't hit people over the head with the red pill, sometimes your life has to be the red pill.
Blessings and love, frens
WWG1WGA
Evil is an unfortunate aspect of free will. Free will, at least true free will, cannot exist without moral evil. We were given commandments and virtue ethics as a way to counter evil and promote good in this life, but many people have decided to lean hard into sin and vice.
It's a depressing thought, but know that good, true good, will eventually prevail.
I'm glad you recognize this. Its worrisome to me that most Christians question God simply because they don't understand free will. Free will allows us to make our own choices under our own accord. The point is, you either show allegiance to God or you don't.
When people say, "If your God is so great. Why would he let school shootings happen!?" The answer is free will.
It is on this Crux that I believe so strongly in individual liberty. You can't wield government to try and stop unfairness and make everything okay, God Himself doesn't even do that with His supreme authority over creation itself. What we can do, however, is try to preserve our ability to choose to be fair and nice and charitable, while hopefully.mitigting the effects we have on others when we infringe on their freedom.
but telling others that if god exist so does evil, as god created us, we accepted evil.
god did not create evil, his creation loosed evil.
Let go of the idea of a Perfectly Moral Supreme Being because we are projecting our own understanding of morality onto that Being. Open to all possibilities and perhaps we will understand that we are all Divine Creation / Creator with Free Will attaining Wisdom.
only way I will do that is if someone can tell me of where time, space and matter exist. then provide me with proof of a place where one of those three does not exist.
Exactly so. I always tell people WE are supposed to be God's hands and feet here on earth. It's OUR responsibility to fight back against any type of darkness. We were given dominion over everything here by God for a time, But humans have given so much over to darkness because of their free will, as you say. Just look at Cain and Able.
Hmmm, correct, I worded that in a weird way. I can't claim to be an expert on the subject, but I can try to give my perspective on the matter of good and evil.
God, a being that exists outside the realm of space and time, is basically the author of the story that is our universe. He knows all the events and characters and how the whole story is going to play out. He created us because he wanted to make beings indowed with a divine spark; beings with free will and reason that can have a close and personal relationship with Him. In doing so, he also knew that at some point we would fall from Eden and be confronted with the choices of good and evil.
Earlier I said that free will cannot exist without moral evil, which is true. I genuinely believe that God, having seen the grand flow of events, gave us moral good and virtue partly because he knew that one day we would be confronted with the potential for evil. God is always good, but the same cannot be said for us. Moral good and virtue in humans, to me, exist as a framework that we can use to live a better life and get back on the path towards God - a divine compass of sorts.
That's just my perspective on the matter. In any situation we can choose good over evil, but because of the nature of free will there will inevitably be people that choose evil. This is not the fault of God, but the fault of man.
Evil exists because it is a nessecary aspect of free will. You can't have a creature with free will that is also unable to be evil much in the same way that you can't have a four sided circle.
God doesn't create evil, we do. Jeffery Epstein chose to be a horrible person of his own free will. He chose to do awful things even though he had the freedom of will to not do so. Remove his ability to make those choices and you remove his free will and agency, thus rendering the whole reason we were made pointless.