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The Events in Japan and Epicurean Paradox
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I think that debates between theists and secularists is especially meaningful given the Forum we are in. Let them prosper!
omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent: There may be a "higher" meaning to life and death that we are incapable of understanding. You aks why would a omnibenevolent God let so many people die and suffer in Japan, I can ask you a more meaningful question...Why do people age, decay and die? Is one death more meaningful than the other because one person drowned in a Tsunami and the other had a heart attack at home? Is it biological population control, if so who? why? what? programed our genes. Why is evolution processed this way?
This is why we Christians fill the Gap with God, we believe that there is a presence that created the universe, the first atom, the first cell/life form. Creationism for me is not Adam and Eve its the origin of the universe.
omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent: There may be a "higher" meaning to life and death that we are incapable of understanding. You aks why would a omnibenevolent God let so many people die and suffer in Japan, I can ask you a more meaningful question...Why do people age, decay and die? Is one death more meaningful than the other because one person drowned in a Tsunami and the other had a heart attack at home? Is it biological population control, if so who? why? what? programed our genes. Why is evolution processed this way?
This is why we Christians fill the Gap with God, we believe that there is a presence that created the universe, the first atom, the first cell/life form. Creationism for me is not Adam and Eve its the origin of the universe.
These are questions I ask as well. I'm only speaking in the context of this event because it is in these instances that God is often invoked the most, and I am curious as to how Christians reconcile this with their beliefs. I hear a diversity of explanations, but none ever seem satisfactory or consistent to me.
In any case, I wonder why a God would allow for these things in the first place. Given all his power, why not create eternal life, or a "perfect" world? What purpose do all these things play?
But that interpretation seems like a more deistic approach than the usual transcendental one that is traditional in Christianity. I find this is the position that a lot of Christians are increasingly taking.
In any case, I wonder why a God would allow for these things in the first place. Given all his power, why not create eternal life, or a "perfect" world? What purpose do all these things play?
But that interpretation seems like a more deistic approach than the usual transcendental one that is traditional in Christianity. I find this is the position that a lot of Christians are increasingly taking.
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