Did your prof. or the textbook define for your purposes what a religion is? Or what (a) philosophy is? Or sin? Or even what the Greek term for sin means? - Why Greek? Because that's the language of the NT. Is evil, then, a sin? The notion that God is presupposed (implied by your OP) disqualifies your prof.'s discussion from serious consideration.In Philosophy of Religion — robbiefrost
The answer seems to be the horse, despite it's ability to sin, — robbiefrost
God's pets. That's us. — Ciceronianus the White
This checks out for me, and makes logical sense. However, in the moments of personal tragedy and evil, I cannot help but question why God couldn't make the simple exception to spare me from the pain. — robbiefrost
Evil is illusory and it doesn't exist outside of our own minds. There is no problem of evil, since there is no evil (outside of our own minds). — Tzeentch
If God is omnipotent, then it must be possible for God to create a world that has free will, and no evil, no? — Echarmion
It's sufficient for the evil to exist in our own minds. Whether or not the evil is illusory, the suffering it causes is real. — Echarmion
creation is not omnipotent. it is finite and limited, and therefore may not be perfectible for that reason. material creation creates a bottleneck upon omnipotence. — OmniscientNihilist
if god changed your thoughts then he would violate your freedom. you have to take responsibility for it yourself and learn and grow a person. which is part of gods plan for you. — OmniscientNihilist
That's contradictory. If you argue that some things just cannot be done, you have to drop the "omni" in "omnipotent". — Echarmion
there is a difference between real omnipotence and magic
if you use magical thinking then god can do anything even make a square circle
if you use real omnipotence then he cant make a square circle because its illogical — OmniscientNihilist
even an omnipotent being would still be limited by the factors of the creation he setup, he cannot contradict his own creation. otherwise it just pure magic, which is just nonsense magical thinking — OmniscientNihilist
any creation, no matter which it is, will have limitations of some kinds somewhere. it can never attain the fake perfection of the idealist. — OmniscientNihilist
what your asking may be nothing more then words in your mind that are impossible in real existence. like a square circle, its just two words put together, it cannot exist outside of words. — OmniscientNihilist
The idea of free will and God’s will are contradictory — NOS4A2
I don't agree. Suffering likewise takes place in our minds. — Tzeentch
2. Gratuitous evils should be stopped if they emit a positive good.
3. There is no evidence that stopping a gratuitous evil emits a positive good. — LizNH
2. Gratuitous evils should be stopped if they emit a positive good.
3. There is no evidence that stopping a gratuitous evil emits a positive good.
— LizNH
Stopping a gratuitous evil "emits" a good by definition. — Echarmion
Not necessarily. Some methods of ‘stopping evil’ contribute greatly to suffering. War, for instance, does not ‘emit a good’. — Possibility
Attachment to material things, including people and indeed one's own life, is the source of most if not all of man's suffering. Since all that is material is fleeting, loss of these things is unavoidable, and attachment to these things is irrational. By attaching ourselves to things which one will unavoidably lose, one is setting themselves up to suffer. — Tzeentch
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