Bobby writes: "I would argue that Steve's inference from the facts of "disease, war, violence, inequity, inequality, stupidity of some design features (knees, elbows, eyes)" to the conclusion that no omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect (loving) deity exists is a perfectly legitimate inference. That is, the facts of evil and suffering are incompatible with the existence of such a deity, and this incompatibility must be explained away for anyone to recognize these facts but still insist on the deity's existence. I have never been persuaded by any of the numerous attempts to rationalize this incompatibility. But we've been down this road, and I'll say no more about it."
Comment: Bobby's view is caused by a lack of faith, not believing the Bible, God's Word, which tells us that, ORIGINALLY, everything made by God was "very good." Then, the Fall, Adam/Eve/Serpent -- humans, substituting their own thoughts for God's commands, and, presto!, ALL things are changed by this original sin; lots of bad things happen. God did not make THIS world; WE did. John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com, Recovering Republican, saved sinner.... _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
