Originally Posted by
maddoggy00
If God did exist, and were omniscient, how can you have the audacity to claim you know he is evil, without immediately first seeing the logicfail? In order to place a definition on "good" and "bad", must you not know first everything that exists, to see the bigger picture? That guy who cut you off on the highway in your way to work and you flipped and cursed him off - what if he just lost his wife and kids in a car crash 2 days ago, can barely function, and it was a complete accident? Who was in the wrong there? You can't presume to know everyone's story, and therefore cannot presume to know what is right or wrong. Since you do not know what is right or wrong, then how can you say God is evil? The only thing you do know in this case is how other people's actions make you feel. Most people then attribute their own emotional reactions to something good or evil, but that is assuming a universal set of values, life circumstances, personalities etc. How accurate is that? And you could argue that murder is wrong because everyone agrees. But could you? Did Hitler truly believe that? Oh, well that's just an anomaly. What if you had a gun in your pocket when you and your friend were out late one night grabbing lunch, and you got held up by 3 guys with an obvious intention to kill. Would it be wrong to kill them before they killed you, if you truly believed you were going to die if you didn't? What would make this OK and the original statement that all murder is bad different? What if Hitler subconsciously believed, and never publicly revealed to anyone, the Jews would eventually kill everyone on the planet or something like that and was just trying to save the world? Too many unknowns. Too many gray areas.
Which would be more pleasing to you: 1) teaching your son how to build a lego tower exactly from the instructions, and he can do it extremely well and efficient, exactly as in the instructions; or 2) teaching your son how to build legos, encouraging him to be creative and realize through construction his own ideas? This is what Christians believe God did. Some lego creations might suck. But seeing your son build anything is worth most.
If you are serious about investigating this, check out Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. or you can look me up on skype.