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>Willing and able huh... well i'm sure he would want to, but >the question is how. Of course the easy way would be taking >away our free will. I guess he could do that. I don't know >who or what god is and what he is capable of, but i >seriously doubt he would want to take free will away from >us, since that is also one of our greatest blessings.
Very good point. So he allows us to do evil because he wants us to have free will to choose righteousness or wrongness. But why did he make wrongness so appealing to so many people?
>But on a long-term base, he may be working on it already. >Let's assume that he gave messages to prophets for the >purpose of trying to teach people that doing evil is wrong. >That was the basic idea of religion, at least that's what i >believe.
This makes a lot of sense. God is trying to solve evil through religion, by teaching people to use their free will to resist/deny evil. I like that notion.
But people (collectively), are obviously still not >ready to comprehend this message and keep killing eachother >over the details of different versions of the same message, >thus missing the whole point.
Why did God make it so hard to understand? Even Jesus came down speaking in parables and shit that most people can't understand. If I were really trying to save as many people's souls as I could, I'd try to be a little more accessible.
>Now it's easy to write this behavior off as "human nature", >although that seems to be the case. But i'm convinced that >people as a whole are in a perpetual learning process, and >that it certainly isn't a lost cause.
Another thing to consider is that God could take away our DESIRE but not our free will to do evil. In other words, we still have free will, but evil/Satan doesn't dwell in our hearts and constantly tempt us.
Of course, there could also be other ways to get rid of evil while still allowing free will that we cannot comprehend, but God can.
I don't know, I just think it's interesting & cool to think about why a loving, beneficent God would have created a world like he did, full of evil...
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