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Old 01-11-2015, 09:22 AM   #1
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The question is who defines evil? A toddler thinks it's evil when his mother doesn't let him eat ice cream for breakfast, but from our perspective we can see he is wrong. From God's perspective maybe human suffering and death aren't really as bad as we think they are, because there is more going on than we can understand with our immature little brains.
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Old 01-11-2015, 12:11 PM   #2
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The question is who defines evil? A toddler thinks it's evil when his mother doesn't let him eat ice cream for breakfast, but from our perspective we can see he is wrong. From God's perspective maybe human suffering and death aren't really as bad as we think they are, because there is more going on than we can understand with our immature little brains.
It was and is those immature brains that conceive of a God Almighty, in the first place.
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Old 01-12-2015, 12:49 PM   #3
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It was and is those immature brains that conceive of a God Almighty, in the first place.
You just said that you believe that you are superior to the vast majority of people on Earth.

Wow.

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Old 01-12-2015, 02:05 PM   #4
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You just said that you believe that you are superior to the vast majority of people on Earth.
You didn't read/understand the post that Pico and ME was responding to.
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Old 01-13-2015, 12:59 PM   #5
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You didn't read/understand the post that Pico and ME was responding to.
Just in case that's the case, I went back and re-read the post that she quoted in her post. I think I understand it well enough.

But just in case that wasn't the case, I re-read the entire thread.

I stand by everything I've said.
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Old 01-11-2015, 01:17 PM   #6
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The question is who defines evil? A toddler thinks it's evil when his mother doesn't let him eat ice cream for breakfast, but from our perspective we can see he is wrong. From God's perspective maybe human suffering and death aren't really as bad as we think they are, because there is more going on than we can understand with our immature little brains.
The argument doesn't pend on the definition of evil, just the existence, which religions generally assume.
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Old 01-13-2015, 01:38 PM   #7
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From God's perspective maybe human suffering and death aren't really as bad as we think they are, because there is more going on than we can understand with our immature little brains.
You and I may not agree on what Clod was saying.

Maybe I misunderstood what Clod was saying.

Maybe you misunderstood what Clod was saying.
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Old 01-13-2015, 01:41 PM   #8
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You and I may not agree on what Clod was saying.
And from any perspective, the same immature brains that are incapable of comprehending God's purposes are the same ones that invented religion.
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