DR. OMED’S VIRTUAL 24-7 SUNDAY SCHOOL: THEODICY 101
It has been suggested that Evil exists because God loved us so much He gave the gift of choice (i.e., Free Will) which necessarily includes the freedom to make bad choices (do Evil).
Did God have a choice about giving us a choice—apropos of the anthropic principle— does God have Free Will?
If God’s greatest gift to humankind is our individual freedom of choice, wouldn’t restricting or limiting the free choice of any human being in any way, such as, say, by passing laws against abortion or gay marriage, be in direct conflict with God’s Will (presuming He has One)?
If unrestricted freedom of choice is God’s Gift to humanity, doesn’t that imply that a philosophy like Anarchism, based on free association and free choice, is the most righteous and holy path for all people?
It has also been suggested that God gave us Free Will not only because He loves us because he wants to be loved back, and the endless adoration of little robots who can’t not love You back would be kind of meaningless and pathetic, as well as boring, after an Eternity or two. Did God create Evil because He was bored?
Does Shit Happen because God is Love?
Is Evil God’s version of Tough Love?
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