Comment by Nelson on April 20, 2011 at 10:17pm

the theist would respond that all of this is a consequence of free will.

Comment by Lindsey on April 20, 2011 at 11:15pm

"God works in mysterious ways" and "We humans cannot expect to understand God's divine plan" and "God is just testing our faith" and "suffering makes us stronger in the long run".  The mental gymnastics that theists  go through to justify their worldview must be exhausting.

Comment by Kenneth Montville D.D. on April 20, 2011 at 11:43pm

This is called Theodicy and there is no one size fits all answer theists will fall back on. Free will is common, but arguments that evil is necessary for spiritual growth, that evil is complimentary to good and that evil is the consequence of sin are all fairly common as well.

Comment by Rob McLean on April 21, 2011 at 2:56am

You can't have good without evil and you can't have evil without good. This because the fairy wants to test your faith and for that purpose put dinosaur fossils in place as a test. The god also tests in other ways, like collapsing the Christchurch Cathedral on 22 of his "creations" last month. gods message is meant to be hard to understand so people will give up and just follow what they're told to follow by their preacher pastor personage. Don't think! Do..

Comment by Malcolm Schwantler on April 21, 2011 at 8:25am

Why would God make something then destroy it, especially knowing all the outcomes of his acts.Lets assume there is a a version of free-will, it does not follow the all the billions of species of animals should be punished before Eve was even created! This is absurd, 98% of every organism has ever existed is extinct, we are are talking about billions of organisms .As far as im concerned, evolution proves that a personal God does not exist.

Comment by Apple on April 21, 2011 at 10:21am

"As far as im concerned, evolution proves that a personal God does not exist."

1) Evolution is a lie created by Big Science™ to push their satanic godless worldview on impressionable Christian children.

 

2) God gave man dominion over the animals.  God is personal, but only with us humans.  All of creation exists so that we can come into communion with the Lord our God.  In this light, one can see how insignificant it is that some lower forms of life may have died off from the time the Earth was created 6,000 years ago.

Comment by Walter Maki on April 21, 2011 at 12:15pm

lmao Rich about the dog. We have a chihuahua and he literally is a mean son of a bitch.

I starting getting a better grasp on reality when I quit trying to explain events in life via "Mean SOB in the Sky" who ain't there. Life happens.

Comment by Sarah Emmaly Burgett on April 21, 2011 at 12:28pm

I once heard a preacher say something along the lines of this " Good things and bad things happen... If it's good, it's God, If it's bad it's the Devil....."  Your list is just a list of things that God let the Devil slip by and get away with I suppose... haha silly theists.

Comment by William C. Walker on April 21, 2011 at 1:00pm

You must always remember that 'The Lord moves in mysterious ways, his blunders to perform'.

Comment by Michael Andrews on April 21, 2011 at 1:22pm

Apple, Apple, Apple.  As the existense of a god is personally offensive to me, your little speil moves me not.  I find that even the heartfelt plea leaves me cold.  It's nonsense.  It has always been nonsense.

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