2006-09-16 04:19:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cos it's fake. here is proof against it, although I have a bad feeling how much logic holds for christians. just read it anyway
1. God exists (premise)
2. God is omnipotent (premise)
3. God is benevolent (premise)
4. Benevolent beings are opposed to all evil. (premise)
5. Benevolent beings will act immediately with no delay. (premise)
6. God is opposed to all evil. (conclusion from 3 and 4)
7. God can eliminate evil completely and immediately. (conclusion from 2)
1. Whatever end result of suffering, God can bring about by ways which do not include suffering. (conclusion from 2)
2. God has no reason not to eliminate evil (conclusion from 7.1)
3. God has no reason not to act immediately (Conclusion from 5)
8. God will eliminate evil completely and immediately. (conclusion from 6, 7.2 and 7.3)
9. Evil exists, has existed, and probably will always exist. (premise)
10. Items 8 and 9 are contradictory; therefore, one or more of the premises is false: either God does not exist, or he is not both omnipotent and benevolent or there is a reason why He does not act immediately.
2006-09-16 04:32:42 · answer #1 · answered by =_= 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no more and no less than any other form of any Religious Belief System. each Culture and Society have a Belief System which explains certain phenomena in Nature. one can tell the type of religion by the society and also the type of society by the religion. what works for one may not work for another hence the various types.
2006-09-16 05:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gave us the cultural milieu which produced the Enlightenment, thanks to which we have computers and the freedom to use them, among a few other things (polio vaccine comes to mind).
Learn and think, then talk, sunshine.
2006-09-16 04:34:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋