A person also can't be all-good and all-powerful. For example, an all-powerful being can do evil. For example, he can kill and eat the weak just for the fun of it. An all-good being can't this because he can do something only if he can be motivated to do it and an all-good being can't be motivated to do such monstrous acts. Worse yet, given the importance that the theist assigns to free will--he needs it to account for evil--he has a problem in explaining why God has free will. A being that freely does good has the option of doing evil. However, since an all-good being can't do evil, he doesn't have that option, and lacks free will. Hence, an all-good being can't be all-powerful or have free will.
2007-01-07 12:12:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God can't go against His nature. God is truth, and the Bible says that God can't lie. God, being truth, whatever He does, is right. Being Omnipotent, He knows all.
2007-01-07 12:20:12 · answer #1 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like i said....contact me and I will answer and explain...it is more complex than you think.
God DOES have free will.
He CAN technicaly do evil.
BUT...he is an ALL GOOD BEING.
He WISHES to remain this.....and THAT is why he doesn't do evil.
A forced creature cannot LOVE...it can only obey.
Hell was never created by God...
it was created by our sins as result of our errors.
That is why God is so powerfull.
It is much harder to be able to do ALL...but
try to resort to doing only the Good.
than being unable to do evil.
Why do you think Jesus was tempted by the devil in the desert?
If God was unable to do evil...devil would have no point doing so....don't underestimate the devil.
God had every option to say : " **** YOUR SINS! I'm getting the HELL OUT OF HERE!" He had that possibility...that option.
But he had the strongest power of all....Love.
His love gave him the power to remain all Good and
give his own life FOR US.
So he could save us. He needed to die...because you and I did Sin. To restore the errors.
He could destroy it all but didn't....he could leave us be and hand us to the devil...but he doesn't
He is all Good.
And by that...All powerfull
A being that does things for self pleasure...is mentaly weak...an animal, a monster...
A being that does evil....is spiritualy weak....
So by being all Good...God is also all powerfull.
The suffering in the world is caused by humans...not by God.
God tries desperately to help us...but does not WISH to take away our freedom...because then he will be weak...AND evil.
If all humans in the entire world....would follow ALL
10 comandments...ALL...eveyone everywhere...
and all would let Jesus in their hearts...all that suffering would not be there...it would cease to excist.
But you can't can you?....and that is what causes suffering.
For God to stop it would be to stop all the causes....thus kill all humans.....
would that be a better option?!! O_o
If you say yes you are suicidal...and a crazy loony.
2007-01-07 12:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by Geoz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that God does both good and evil (Hebrew: calamity) so evil is relative. You cannot come to conclusions about the Creator while you live on a physical plane on He in the eternal.
2007-01-07 12:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
An All-good being has the option to do evil but refrains from it.
2007-01-07 12:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can anybody claim god is all good?
Injustice:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/inj/long.html
Cruelty and violence:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html
Intolerance:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/int/long.html
He's one of the most evil characters in all of literature.
2007-01-07 12:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is all the possibilities in one.
2007-01-07 12:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would YOU be possible if God wasn't?
2007-01-07 12:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by bballer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋