How do you live in this world - filled with wars and chaos - with no hope of redemption or things getting better, and just thing “yep, this is all there is, life is good”. As Christians, we have assurance, certainty and comfort in that Jesus is coming back to judge the world, destroy all the wicked and bring us to eternal life. Atheists don’t have that. Even worse, some even prefer to insult this God. What’s keeping me grounded in this life is the knowledge that God dictates when my life ends- not me.
I don’t know how theists do it. How do you live in this world - filled with wars and chaos - believing that an omnipotent being is not only overseeing it all, but permitting it to happen? And the same being is your only hope for redemption and getting things better! As atheists, we don’t need to believe in a god that is a juxtaposition of the creator of everything in this world including that which is wrong, and also our only hope.
Your assurance, certainty, and comfort is that the same god that created the wickedness will bring you to eternal life. Don’t want to spend eternity with such a being?
God is not the author of evil. God permits it to happen because He is patient. If God would stop permitting evil, it’ll result in wiping every human off the earth, and not giving them a chance to repent. Our days are numbered. God does deal with evil.
God is omnipotent. He is the creator of all things.
So god created evil. God also has the power to destroy evil without destroying every human - god is omnipotent.
I would be so depressed if I believed in the doomsday death cults!
You cannot destroy “evil” without destroying “good”.
Evil is defined by the absence of good.
If you got rid of the darkness you would lose all of the colors, you would lose all of the sight, because there would be nothing to see except for the light.
No, the absence of good can also be neutral.
No, you don’t need darkness to see light.
The darkness gives the light its form.
no, that’s light sources and objects.