If I had the knoweldge that a child was being hurt, and I had the power to stop it, I would. Your god would just watch, and let it happen. That is why I am more moral than your god.
Yet you stand by the concept of abortion, in which 3,000 babies are murdered brutally every day. Not only do you stand by this idea, but support it.
If God prevented all evil from happening, cause and effect would have no meaning. In other words, it is man's fault for all evil that occurs in this world, and not the Lord's.
Without evil, people wouldn't choose between God and their own earthly interests.
If you saved that child from death, then it was God's will for that child to live on. If not, there are other reasons that no man can understand. Assuming that God does exist (in your case), questioning the reasons behind His actions is pointless if He is omniscient.
I know that you have gone through struggle, but defeating the idea of God will not fill that empty hole that the earth ever so fails to fill. I do hope you have the courage to become a Christian one day.
Because God gave us freedom. We are the cause of evil. If God just stopped all evil, we wouldn't have freedom to pick and choose whatever we wanted to do.
If God restricted all evil, then none of us would ever pick to never follow him. Therefore, by giving us free choice, evil is created from the wrong choices.
God punishes all evil acts both on and off this planet.
It takes balls to be a Christian because you have to have faith in something that you will never know all the answers to. But I know enough. Even if there was a chance that God is not real, I would still take that chance. Because, assuming that He is, I would be going to Hell for not accepting him. This topic of "Why doesn't God stop all evil" happens to be one of, if not the biggest, wall to faith for people who are legitimately interested in Christianity.
I don't want you or anyone else to end up in such a horrible place. It is something that you should really consider looking into. I am always happy to respond to any questions concerning the Lord.
Bullshit. If someone chose evil, and god intervened, it does not negate that choice, it just prevents harm.
There is no such thing as an innocent bystandar. If you have the power to intercede, and stand by and do nothing, then you are not innocent, you are complicit.
Get this everybody, victreebelvictr is seriously arguing that god allows children to be molested, so they will believe in him.
Then by your reasoning, this is totally cool:
I am perfectly satisfied with my life, thanks. I am not gullible enough to be a Christian.
Following a God who isn't good... Now that's a scary thing. I spent thirty years in church and Christian schools, and they never explained the OP well. It wasn't till I got old enough to realize it wasn't that I couldn't understand, it was that they didn't know that I walked away and won't go back...
Each to me we make a child we have to start all over again with a different brain instead of evolving our partners.
The whole need of children is to extend the strain but one day the sun will explode, what then mister Christian? I've thought about things that would truly drive you down.
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It is you who cited my support for reproductive choice as a judgment. I just pointed out that if you have a problem with it, then you have a problem with your god.
It is so inaccurate, but I am not seeing any specific objections.