So let's review. YOU AGREED that:Waco1947 said:If God is all loving and all powerful then there would be no pathogen. Why would God whose fullness is good and loving allow a pathogen into our lives when God had the power to not create the pathogen..LIB,MR BEARS said:Waco1947 said:I appreciate your hard work but my basic question was "What is the analogy? Re-post it hereLIB,MR BEARS said:Waco1947 said:That you don't read my responses is your problem, not mine.LIB,MR BEARS said:Waco1947 said:Nope I responded to coke BearLIB,MR BEARS said:Coke explained it with the vaccination analogy. To this point, you've ignored his response. You owe the response before anyone owes you anything.Waco1947 said:You keep leaving out of your equation that God is, also, loving. The dynamic tension between love and all powerful does not hold.D. C. Bear said:Waco1947 said:
You said: "Why must no evil exist? God being all-powerful does not mean that he doesn't have to allow evil."
You keep leaving out of your equation that God is, also, loving. The dynamic tension between love and all powerful does not hold.
One simply cannot hold these two notions together logically and you deal with only half of the equation.
Yes, it does, and more than simply hold, both God's total power and absolute love are reflected in all situations, including where there is evil. Furthermore, the presence of evil in the world allows God's power and love to be manifested in ways that would not be apparent if evil was not present.
One simply cannot hold these two notions together logically and you deal with only half of the equation.
In this thread you didn't . Here is his analogy again so you can't miss it unless you choose to.
Coke said, " I imagine that you love your children. You would never let anyone hurt them. You would probably attack someone that tried to hurt them. Must dads would protect their children with their lives. Imagine a man trying to inflicting pain onto to them.
I would guess that you had your children immunized when they were infants. You love them with all your heart and more. But you let a doctor or nurse jab them with a sharp needle filled with a potential pathogen. They were doing nothing wrong and the next thing they knew was a sharp pain and intense crying.
But you knew it was for their own good. They would be better off in the log run with some suffering.
God loves us more than we can know, but he allows us to suffer because He knows that it will be better for us in the long run."
So address it or dodge. Your choice.
Coke's analogy
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So now is your chance buddy. You either responded on a different thread and don't want to point it out, responded to coke privately or, you have responded but want others to think you did.
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"What is the analogy?" You said you answered it. You said you'd already responded to Coke.
Just quit lying already. Address the analogy
Here it is, AGAIN
Coke said, "I imagine that you love your children. You would never let anyone hurt them. You would probably attack someone that tried to hurt them. Must dads would protect their children with their lives. Imagine a man trying to inflicting pain onto to them.
I would guess that you had your children immunized when they were infants. You love them with all your heart and more. But you let a doctor or nurse jab them with a sharp needle filled with a potential pathogen. They were doing nothing wrong and the next thing they knew was a sharp pain and intense crying.
But you knew it was for their own good. They would be better off in the log run with some suffering.
God loves us more than we can know, but he allows us to suffer because He knows that it will be better for us in the long run."
So, address the analogy.
If you were God and had the power to do so, would simply not allow the pathogen in the first place.
It has to do with the nature of God. What is your definition of God? Both all powerful and all loving and yet evil exists at God's hand
1. Empathy, compassion, understanding, helping others in need, forgiveness, justice, and mercy would NOT BE POSSIBLE unless there was evil and suffering.
2. Empathy, compassion, understanding, helping others in need, forgiveness, justice, and mercy are GOOD things that are a big part of LOVE.
So doesn't this mean, then, that it is perfectly logical for an all powerful God who is loving to allow evil and suffering, because without it it would be impossible for us to have empathy, compassion, forgiveness etc. which are a part of LOVE?
In other words, doesn't it mean, then, that if God does NOT allow evil and suffering, then He is not all loving?