"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" (Epicurus)
Epicurean philosophy is essentially the precursor to modern science.
And yes, i do have a Classics assignment and am getting distracted.
2 comments:
That quote is utter crap. Blasphemy.
I will enlighten you. God loves us so much he gave us free will. To interfere with that would be destroying our free will. Evil is a result of our evil choices. We are the cause of evil, but God does not intervene because that would be against our will. But He will judge those who do evil.
God gave us freewill in order to truly love us. Our human minds cannot see the big picture! God does everything in His own timing and He will deal with evil when that time comes.
God doesn’t step into each and every situation merely at our bidding. If He did then we would be ruling God, in which case He would cease to be God.
You see, God has His own mind and agendas, you can’t put God in a box! Everything works together for good, but often we just don’t see that at the time.
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