Posted by Flipsactown on April 15, 2004, at 8:15:31
In reply to Re: Free Will » Flipsactown, posted by simus on April 14, 2004, at 23:02:20
That was the exact post that got me to thinking about free will. God is all Good and Perfect. So since we are created by an all Good and Perfect God that means God created us perfectly. Out of God's Love, God gave us free will. Now this is where I am confused. Since God is all Good and Perfect and we are created in God's image, then when God gave us free will to know good from bad, we would always choose good because we were created in God's image to be all Good. As I am wanting to continue to strengthen my faith in God, can someone please explain this to me.
God Bless,
FST
> > But God is all Good and Perfect, so how can God create something not perfect?
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> Hi-
> I posed this a month ago here, and I thought it may give you something to ponder. I appologize I do not know who wrote this, so I can't give credit to the person.
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> DID GOD CREATE EVIL?
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> Did God create evil? This will make you think for a while.
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> At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the first class, every semester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade them and to mock their statement of faith. One semester, he asked the question and a young man raised his hand.
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> The professor asked, "Did God make everything, young man?"
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> He replied "Yes sir, He did!"
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> The professor responded, "If God made everything, then He made evil."
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> The student didn't have a response and the professor was happy to once again proved the Christian faith to be a myth.
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> Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you something, sir?"
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> "Yes, you may," responded the professor.
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> The young man stood up and said, "Sir, is there such a thing as cold?"
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> "Of course there is, what kind of a question is that? Haven't you ever been cold?"
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> The young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we consider to be cold, is really an absence of heat. Absolute zero is when there is absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist. We have only created that term to describe how we feel when heat is not there."
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> The young man continued, "Sir, is there such a thing as dark?"
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> Once again the professor responded, "Of course there is."
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> And once again, the student replied, "Actually, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is really only the absence of light. Darkness is only a term developed to describe what happens when there is no light present."
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> Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such a thing as evil?"
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> The professor responded, "Of course, we have rapes, murders and violence everywhere in the world. Those thing are evil."
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> The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is simply the absence of God.
> Evil is a term developed to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. It isn't like truth, or love which exist as virtues like heat or light. Evil is simply the state where God is not present, like cold without heat, or darkness without light."
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> The professor had nothing to say...
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