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I appreciate you posting their point of view. I never really considered it, because I'd never heard it as such before. Unfortunately, I still don't fully understand their point of view. There are blatant warps in their logic.
What is good? What is evil? Mankind can't define good without realizing what evil it has been doing.
Mankind has also defined good while being in an evil state.
What about people who don't know what good or evil (amoral?) is and simply DO things? Where do they go to spend eternity, Wyoming? Or you pick a place where nothing ever happens.
And, best of all, God has told people what to do in the Biblical stories. He told Moses to tell the world of His 10 commandments (couldn't He have told Adam and Eve too?). He told Noah to pack up 2 of each animal (one male, one female, and including the mosquitoes) and live in a big houseboat with exceptional toilet facilities and enough food to live on for all involved while He flooded everybody else to death for over a month straight. He told Isaac to sacrifice his son. He's said lots of things to lots of people. Most amusingly, He sent us Jesus and told a bunch people about it beforehand! Yet alone having His firstborn try to change the world for the better. All of these mean He has interfered with free will. However, He sending Jesus was a good thing, as we'd accept Jesus is a man of peace and tolerance - as he was written to be.
The idea that God doesn't interfere with free will is a flaming kettle of cack. The Bible proves that several times over. And isn't the Bible "God's Word"? (which becomes a different issue, God likes to digress and contradict Himself almost as often as I do...)
Personally, I believe in higher beings. Maybe even an ultimate Being. But organized religion? I refuse to be so arrogant as to decide who or what God is until I meet Him. God may be a Her as well. The Bible wasn't written in English and I'm sure evil people changed some of the meanings and intent out of self-interest and bigotry. (the real reason why Sodom & Gommorah were destroyed was because people were mean to each other and, in those days, to be mean toward guests was wrong. Somebody eventually changed it to making scapegoats out of homosexuals rather than the greedy and selfish.) If God wanted to make Himself clear, he would have intervened with those evildoers and He would have made things consistent from the start.
How far damaged must a gem like the Earth get before God steps in, saying enough is enough? (having created life, the Universe, and everything, God surely knows how difficult it is to make a planet like the Earth. Of course, the fact the Universe has so few Earth-like planets and more balls of dust, rock, ice, and gas suggests He isn't perfect either...)
God "not interfering" just signs a blank check for people who want to be evil. And many of today's evil also claim to believe in God.
Sigh. I'll never understand. But isn't understanding evil?
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