emanation from God
By BourderHouse
@BourderHouse (749)
Philippines
March 6, 2007 11:20am CST
Christians nearly always blame the world's problems, mankind's problems, and the existence of evil on mankind itself. Actually, I've never heard a Christian claim otherwise, that anything bad was in the slightest way God's fault.
Are we, as God's alleged creation, separate from God himself?
If nothing existed before it emanated from God, how then does evil *not* come from God? How does anything that we can observe, not occur unless it is ultimately from God?
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@aries_0325 (3060)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
Now you're going to have to define "evil". What is evil?
And at least one of the morally sufficient reasons would be that free will is good in and of itself. For love to be authentic, it must be freely given and accepted and it is this freedom that brings about what we consider evil.
To be able to choose to love someone and have that love authentic, one must be able to choose not to love someone and that ability is what results in the evil we see around us regardless of how you define it...
@lifebydesign (1)
• United States
6 Mar 07
martin luther stated 'the devil (ie satan) is God's devil- good can not exist with out the opposite of evil--
