God is not a dictator. He gave us free will and as long as people choose to use their free will for evil there will be evil. He also gave us an instruction manual and a living example of how to live. He also gave us access to His Spirit to help guide us. When people choose to live His way He starts relationships with them and cares for them providing some protection to offset the evil from others. I say some because being a perfect father He also knows when we need trials to grow and become stronger.
Didn't we also say, when those that have the power and knowledge to stop something horrible from happening to the whole world, sitting back and letting it happen would make you complicit as well?
Lecturing say people in China need to "get stronger" while speaking out just the tiny bit will get you killed...doesn't really help?
Okay. What if God saw the oppression that was happening in America before the American Revolution and just disappeared the British from America and sent them back to their country.
Without the struggle, the Constitution isn't made. America does not become an example for other countries to the point that its Constitution is copied and adopted by many countries. There is no everlasting national pride in America. The US States, in fact, are less inclined to join as one and instead become their own smaller countries like many wanted at the time.
A united America never focuses on building its military based on learned lessons and becomes a group of shithole countries that never becomes a world power, never receives major international investment as a 'safe' (military superior) country, and the other countries take hundreds of more years to re-discover the principles of the American Constitution.
In Star Trek one of the philosophies is not to meddle with other civilizations or meddle with time travel, or else it can cause unintended consequences. If you do a 'good' thing and things go bad you are basically responsible for all of it.
How do you counter people that bring up the point about the Loving God? Always confused on how to respond.
You can love your child without controlling their life like a dictator.
What's the point of bringing a life into the world to live as an individual if you are just going to control everything?
What if it's not about controlling everything but to stop say a group of a few from making the rest suffer for decades or hundreds of years?
Communism, fascism, the dark ages, ancient Roman pedos, cabal pedovores, etc
Omnipresent omnipotent being that can intervene any time, surely should intervene then?
God is not a dictator. He gave us free will and as long as people choose to use their free will for evil there will be evil. He also gave us an instruction manual and a living example of how to live. He also gave us access to His Spirit to help guide us. When people choose to live His way He starts relationships with them and cares for them providing some protection to offset the evil from others. I say some because being a perfect father He also knows when we need trials to grow and become stronger.
Didn't we also say, when those that have the power and knowledge to stop something horrible from happening to the whole world, sitting back and letting it happen would make you complicit as well?
Lecturing say people in China need to "get stronger" while speaking out just the tiny bit will get you killed...doesn't really help?
Okay. What if God saw the oppression that was happening in America before the American Revolution and just disappeared the British from America and sent them back to their country.
Without the struggle, the Constitution isn't made. America does not become an example for other countries to the point that its Constitution is copied and adopted by many countries. There is no everlasting national pride in America. The US States, in fact, are less inclined to join as one and instead become their own smaller countries like many wanted at the time.
A united America never focuses on building its military based on learned lessons and becomes a group of shithole countries that never becomes a world power, never receives major international investment as a 'safe' (military superior) country, and the other countries take hundreds of more years to re-discover the principles of the American Constitution.
In Star Trek one of the philosophies is not to meddle with other civilizations or meddle with time travel, or else it can cause unintended consequences. If you do a 'good' thing and things go bad you are basically responsible for all of it.
This is perfect. Thank you!!
People have free will. Pretty simple. Think about it, if people have free will, how can you(God) prevent (all) bad things from happening?