So, Why Does God Permit Wickedness? (page 2)

JH

I would say that God permits everything until he decides otherwise.

gumby

It's too hard to then pray for help with something in my life or for someone else, when I know that IF He were to answer, even grant my request, He will have done so while at the same time ignoring some innocent child's anguished plea for help somewhere else in the universe.

Bingo!

This is the dead end street many of us ex-dubs drive into. We see a creator in the spledors of life, yet cannot grasp any REASONABLE conclusion that a loving creator would allow pain and suffering to it's own creation. There is no reason good enough for a god who made man is his (supposed) image, to allow his children to suffer harm. The harm are many times 'unspeakable' harms. No creator who has at least a "humane" intrest seems to care in this aspect of their creation.

Gumby

A Paduan

Bingo

Jws do not love other people enough to suffer for them.

dustyb

watch the movie dogma. i believe kevin smith explains it the best when the angel comes and speaks to the girl....

gumby

Bingo
Jws do not love other people enough to suffer for them.

Once again Paduan.....you leave me speechless.????????????????????????????????? Gumby

hillary_step

Why does God permit Minimus?

Could this be the ultimate question?

HS

Stefanie

watch the movie dogma. i believe kevin smith explains it the best when the angel comes and speaks to the girl....

That movie was weird......

hillary_step

There can be no fathomable answer to this question. I have seen many supposed answers but none that actually satisfy the demands of the question.

It is a question that always made me feel very ucomfortable while I was a JW. The WTS package did not attend to the moral implications of a God who is prepared to watch while millions of henious crimes are committed over thousands of years and actually makes the choice not to intervene and not even to inform those suffering why it is happening. The argument that man chooses of his own volition to behave like a monster and that his behavior cannot be laid at the feet of God is a theological shuffle of the worst sort and *never* answers the cries of the victim. If a God exists then like any manager, he is morally responsible for his creation.

I am not saying that there is no answer to this question, there may well be, that is why I remain agnostic over such issues, but I do believe that to introduce a moral compass into humanity and not give them answers to such neccessary questions leaves God with many questions of his own to answer, the main one being, 'What does my permission of wickedness and my long-term silence about the matter show about me".

HS

Panda

Are we talking about "a god"? Ho theos? HEHEHEHEH... just kidding ... No one permits wickedness. That's like always having someone to question or blame for bad people or seismic activity. If you're talking about disease then that's all part of evolution and we brought the little bugs along with us. If you're talking about nasty people then I'd say religion is the bugger. Nothing NOTHING more sinister than a supreme being.

Panda of the Permitless Class

gumby

I do believe that to introduce a moral compass into humanity and not give them answers to such neccessary questions leaves God with many questions of his own to answer

I understood all but this part. "Care to esplain Lucy"?

Gumby

So, Why Does God Permit Wickedness?

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