tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350577923360531878.post4416264332597730289..comments2024-03-11T22:52:18.037-04:00Comments on Notes from the Ninth Circle: Yahweh, Creator of evilChuck Hamiltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05597990992093643983noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350577923360531878.post-83518194188626629512022-08-05T20:26:48.727-04:002022-08-05T20:26:48.727-04:00Why do theologians and why do religious folks cont...Why do theologians and why do religious folks continue to believe that God is all good, all powerful, and all wise? This belief is not only unproven but extremely unlikely to be true. Two more attributes should be added as it pertains to God or the creator, Rationality and Sanity. Is He rational, or irrational? Is He sane or insane? Theres no way to know this. The only way to answer the age old question of the origin and cause of evil is to either question God, which is impossible, as He chooses to be hidden and silent, or to somehow be able to study and dissect who and what God is, which is impossible. We would have to know what are the extent of His powers, or what can?He do and not do, what is the extent of His intelligence and knowledge, what is His goodness, or is He good as we understand the definition of good, or is He devoid of goodness? Is He rational or not? Is He sane or not? Did He create or cause all the Natural evils and did He cause Moral evil or sin? Did He create Satan and demons? Did He foresee that angels would turn bad and become Satan and demons? Did He foresee that Humans would become so evil? Did He knowingly create mosquitoes, ticks, jellyfish, sharks, screw worm flies? Did He foresee the harm and suffering He would cause by creating and allowing these things? Why create these things if He knew the harm and suffering these things would cause and the resulting agnosticism, atheism, heresy, apostasy, and blasphemy as a result of these evils?<br /> Its a God that doesnt make sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350577923360531878.post-35936810887165331862021-10-18T00:52:27.538-04:002021-10-18T00:52:27.538-04:00In my opinion Yahweh the Bible God is both good an...In my opinion Yahweh the Bible God is both good and evil, or is a Jekyll and Hyde in personality. Different sources claim different things about the passage in Isahiah chapter 45, verse 7. No one really knows what it means. Much of the Bible, including this verse, is vague, ambiguous, unclear, and full of contradictions. The Bible has caused centuries of disagreement, division, and confusion.<br /> The three categories of evil are: Moral evil, which is the evil done by any intelligent,conscious being such as Humans, the Devil, Satan, demons, archons, djinn, evil fairies. Violence, cruelty, malice, selfishness, lying, stealing, killing are some examples of Moral evil.<br /> Then there's Natural evil, which is the harm and suffering caused from Nature, which is th<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />e hardest to explain and hardest to justify in my opinion. Natural evil can also be called Blind evil, Amoral evil, or Non moral evil.Natural evils are so numerous and have existed since the beginning of time. The early earth during the Precambrian era was a hellish inferno, anaerobic, suffocating, unbreathable, with sulfur, methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, boiling mud pools, and temperatures thousands of degrees hot. <br /> Other examples of Natural evils are violence and killing through predation, diseases such as cancer, stroke, aneurysm, heart disease, tooth decay, malaria, ebola, etc. There are venomous creatures such as Stonefish, Brazilian wandering spiders, Centipedes, etc. Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice, screw worm flies, bedbugs all contribute to make life a hell.<br /> Other Natural evils are intense cold, intense heat, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, vog, acid rain, overpulation, starvation, dehydration, pollution, floods, droughts, famine, birth defects, miscarriages, mental retardation, dementia, blindness, deafness, execrement, mold, mildew, vermin, grime, scum. Nature has a cruel, violent, dangerous, repulsive side.<br /> Grievous accidents and injuries cause suffering and death to both humans and animals. Car and motor vehicle accidents and dangerous machinery such as chainsaws fill up hospitals and cemeteries. Fire is a very dangerous and scary element.<br /> The worst form of suffering is probably being buried alive inside a coffin, crypt, vault, etc. Suffocation and claustrophobia. Unbearable torture, a fate worse than death. <br /> Supernatural evil is the evil from Satan and demons. Author Gregory Boyd claims that Satan and demons are to blame for all Natural evil and for all Moral evil/Human evil and sin. We don't really know in what ways Satan and demons are evil. Job is the only book in the Bible where Satan inflicts physical torture, killing, and death. There's much stronger evidence that Satan and demons are evil by desiring to drag humans in hell, and by possessing human minds and bodies.<br /> Is God partly evil, or insane, or indifferent, uncaring, unintelligent, incompetent, mentally blind, morally blind, or weak and powerless? We don't really know. Monism believes in a powerful, sovereign God, while Dualism believes in a weak God who is not in charge of the creation.<br /> The only thing that's certain is that the world is a hellhole and horror movie. The puzzle and origin of evil is the most disturbing mystery which is not likely to be solved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com