If the universe is so bad,...?

Question

or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?


(C.S. lewis The Problem of Pain pg.3)

Answer 1

Answering your question requires agreeing with the assumption that the universe is bad. Doing this, it is hard to conceive that a wise and good intelligence created it. However, badness in a matter of perception, and is relative to one's experience of the universe. In the end the answer to this question is meaningless.

Answer 2

The first statement is an opinion and the second is an assumption.
The only answer you can get to a question formed by opinions and assumptions will be rhetoric and worse than the question itself.

I have heard many different opinions of the universe from it being hell to it being the magical place of beauty and wonder.
Creation is still a 50-50 debate. It is not all humans saying God created the universe. Many believe in evolution and the big bang.

Try again

Answer 3

There are defferent degrees of love. The one this wise and good Creator has for his creatures is far beyond the scope of the creatures (us human). He has given us the power of choice and His love will not forces us outside of our desire, the way we want to choose. Human find pleasure in doing bad things. He did another thing after man sin, he put enmity (cause us to hate )between us and sin. So we love sin yet we hate it. This was added in so we may be able to exercise our will to choose. without this hate for sin we will only love it. He could on make us only one way otherwise we would be robuts for him. Who wants a programed robot as a mate. We could not say like him 'come let us reason together'He permits it but it is to prevent us from becomming robots.

Answer 4

Who said the universe is bad or half bad? What even makes a universe bad? What are you talking about? Bronze age sheep herders invented many gods and gave attributes to a lot of them for many different reasons.

Answer 5

The universe is not "bad", that is an opinion. But, those of us that believe that all PKG God created the world, also believe that when He created it was good, perfect, and beautiful. Recall, the story of Adam and Eve. Remember, they were in the garden, life was perfect, until they committed the first sin. When they sinned they were kicked out of the perfect garden, shamed with their sin, and forced to live in the world of sin. Our world is "bad" not because God made it bad, but because of SIN! God made a perfect and wonderful universe, but his creation, the humans have made his creation what it is today.

Answer 6

I think alot of people like the idea of something to believe in. My father for example, is the farthest thing from a church-going person, but he tells me having something to believe in gets him through the day. I, myself, am not sure about the whole creator thing, I need something tangible, not just a book that's been around for thousands of years. But I do like the idea of praying for others and myself sometimes.

Answer 7

The universe is not bad. All of God's creations other than man are doing exactly as they were intended to do. Only Satans interference with man has caused us to be the ones to rock the boat more or less.

Answer 8

Christans don't only God haters.
and C.S. lewis is a book not bible

Answer 9

Easy answer.

Vanity

Humans think so much of themselves that whoever was responsible must have been all powerful and wise.

Answer 10

The "half-glass-filled or half-glass-empty" theory explains this best.