I've heard many times that all the evil in the world is because of Satan and the Fall. But the world is, by and large, a harsh place. Is everything someone would consider bad, or even non-ideal, the work of Satan?
Do you think the devil suddenly made animals carnivorous,
allowed fire to be able to spread uncontrollably,
opened the earth to blows from asteroids,
introduced defective genes that caused mental retardation,
removed resistance to harsh radiation,
tweaked bacteria so it can adapt and resist antibiotics,
...and this is all just the tip of the iceberg.
Or was it just sin in general, and not specifically the devil? If so, how did "sin" get this magic ability? Wouldn't it have to have been god that gave sin this power, since, supposedly, nothing exists that god didn't create?
Or did god create a harsh world, and then just remove his protection as a punishment for Adam and Eve sinning? Doesn't that make him both capricious, and outright unfair?
2007-04-25
02:52:22
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