God gave us the capacity to do evil because he gave us free will. Giving free will meant doing evil is inevitable and anything different wouldn’t be free will
He created humans with the capacity to do evil, therefore he created evil. I understand the central point, I’m disputing your belief that it’s possible to have free will and never do evil
Can’t really represent this point without an allegory but are social insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites etc) represent always doing good? A river? Stellar fusion?
Oh, I thought you backtracked that immediately. So that means your god isn’t actually all-powerful, right? There exists some higher concept of good and evil to which he is bound, which he cannot violate?
Who made that concept? Why is god able to do anything except create free will without evil? He created the concept of free will, why can’t he create it differently?
I think I’m starting to understand where we differ
Option 1: humans cannot do evil, only good (not free will)
Option 2: humans can do good and/or evil
Why imagine an illogical reality where both of these things can be true, we don’t live in it. Being all powerful means such a reality can be made, but god chose not to make it. He bound us by this logic, not the other way around
This also gives the opportunity for a human being to turn away from evil at great sacrifice to themselves and choose to do good, and such a morally good act wouldn’t be a good act if they had no choice. Why can’t the argument then be reversed, if good exists in the world then god is either good or powerless to stop it
God gave us the capacity to do evil because he gave us free will. Giving free will meant doing evil is inevitable and anything different wouldn’t be free will
He created humans with the capacity to do evil, therefore he created evil. I understand the central point, I’m disputing your belief that it’s possible to have free will and never do evil
Can’t really represent this point without an allegory but are social insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites etc) represent always doing good? A river? Stellar fusion?
Oh, I thought you backtracked that immediately. So that means your god isn’t actually all-powerful, right? There exists some higher concept of good and evil to which he is bound, which he cannot violate?
Who made that concept? Why is god able to do anything except create free will without evil? He created the concept of free will, why can’t he create it differently?
I think I’m starting to understand where we differ
Option 1: humans cannot do evil, only good (not free will)
Option 2: humans can do good and/or evil
Why imagine an illogical reality where both of these things can be true, we don’t live in it. Being all powerful means such a reality can be made, but god chose not to make it. He bound us by this logic, not the other way around
This also gives the opportunity for a human being to turn away from evil at great sacrifice to themselves and choose to do good, and such a morally good act wouldn’t be a good act if they had no choice. Why can’t the argument then be reversed, if good exists in the world then god is either good or powerless to stop it