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Originally Posted by Legal lies
There are many possible explanations that have been given for why God doesn't heal amputees, cure cancer, etc. I won't give any of these, but let's take a real world example. Let's say that I eliminate the problem of AIDS in Africa. Great, right? What if by doing this, though, it makes the problem of famine and starvation worse? In fact, the new starvation problem might end up being worse than the previous starvation and AIDS problems combined. While in the beginning it looked like I was doing good (from my limited perspective), it turns out things were better the way that they were. Perhaps God has made the world perfect as it is. It doesn't look that way from my perspective, but God can see much more from her perspective. Hard to believe, yes. Impossible, no.
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Perfect would be no pain whatsoever, if god truly was all powerful then they could wipe out AIDS
and starvation.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus
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"If he's all powerful that would surely make a bunch more people start believing in him/her/it/them."-Why would an all powerful being be so worried as to what everyone thinks of it? I've always found it really strange that people think that the all powerful, all seeing God lives to see us worshiping him/her/it. Talk about an inferiority complex!
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Talk about an ego is more like it. If we don't worship God we're going to hell, sounds to me like he cares.