Why is there all this evil in the world. C.S.Lewis has the answer
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I'm reading a book right now about why God allows or permits evil to exist. Beautifully written, from 1941, yet it still speaks truth to this day.
"Deliver us from evil."
The greatest act of love you can show God, and thus, your fellow Man, is working to recreate the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Book name and author?
Yandex search finds this: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-God-Permit-Evil/product-reviews/1928832768
That's the one. Only halfway through, but incredibly well written.
Right. Big CS Lewis fan here. I figure God created beings other than himself to share love and joy with. Would you rather watch a funny movie with a good friend who is there because he/she likes being with you or with a doll that laughs when you pull the string?
There must needs be opposition in all things. Adam fell that men might be. And men are that they might have joy.
No pain, no gain.
All sin is a choice.
Any action made by any person which did not originate from a choice, is meaningless. Its the action of an automata.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Yes - love and hate are choices. Without freewill there can be not love.
It's telling that the technocrats who seek to create a world of automatons have been poisoning the well by claiming free will doesn't exist.
Thank you for this post! It is spot on!
Like a programmer would allow a piece of software to make decisions based on algorithms, it doesn't make the programmer responsible if the software decides to go rogue.
I have mixed feelings about that. I often think God should put limits on evil; or at least make it easier for good people to defeat evil.
Then we wouldn't have free will. It would be a lie.
"You have the freedom to choose what you will do and what actions you will take... Unless of course you do this..."
There needs to be a limit on how far evil goes. When you have little kids as young as 3 weeks old with their hands tied behind their backs while being sexually battered, evil has gone too far. Fast forward to 09:45 if you dare to.
https://greatawakening.win/p/16bPQQQTYt/disney-employee-arrested-alongsi/c/
I believe there is a "limit". We set the limit and it is our job to make sure that limit exists. Those that break the limit get to take the "Room temperature challenge" ricky tick.
God can not impose such a limit and continue to be just and good. For numerous reasons. He said we have free will and so if He then limited us anyway, He would be a liar. God is not a liar.
It would also betray His character. He created us with free will, so our love was true, and we weren't just puppets with no true desire to follow Him. It would be contradictory to create us in such a way and then limit the very thing that makes us that way. God is not contradictory.
And how do you figure God determines between forms of evil, anyway? A perfect being would surely see all evil similarly, no? Sure, there are differences in the sense that different things are different, but in effect, a perfect and good God would not care in a moral sense. The wages for sin are the same no matter what sin you commit. Meaning, all evil is deserving of the same level of punishment.
Lying, murder, rape, etc.
The punishment is the same. Death and eternal separation from God.
OK - What about the evil madman that has his finger on the button of a nuclear device that can blow up the Earth? You think God is going to let the madman have his way just so the rest of us can have free will?
God works through people who give their will to Him to stop things like that from happening.
But if no one chose to follow God, then yes, He respects free will. This isn't some sometimes shit where He "tries" to respect free-will "when possible". God does not try anything, He simply does.