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Originally Posted by Freakshow68  Well, I'm not going to be getting into a huge regilious Freak out here, so I will just say this: Humans are able to make choices and every action in life is a choice. A choice to do one thing can lead to several bad things happening or good things for that matter. |
No one has yet been able to prove that humans are able to make free choices though.
Anyways the problem of evil has been known as a reason against the Christian philosophy. This kind of reasoning may not work for all religions, but it does help to disprove the Christian idea of God, Heaven, and Hell, while also giving insight into free-will as well. The insight into free-will is that, all power is in God, so all our choices are made by God-- including evil ones-- meaning God is either not omniscient or is not omnibenevolent. And the very idea of the existence of Satan implies that God is not all-knowing or all-powerful(would've seen Satan's defiance coming).
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An interesting note that was brought up in my World Religions class last semester-- some of the stories of the Old Testament might have been adapted from Polytheistic people. Many times in the Adam and Eve story there are odd references and God is at times mentioned as god in lower-case.