Summatron !06NY4sFIG. joined in and replied with this 1 week ago, 7 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,338,540
Two questions to ask a religious person.
Why is your religion the one true religion and all others are false religions?
If God can predict the future, does that mean we lack free will? If God predicted that a couple would one day have a child called Luigi, who would murder. Does that mean the God allowed the murder to happen?
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 week ago, 8 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,338,544
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In Christianity the point of this life is a test before our judgement. So death isn’t inherently bad since it’s a natural inevitability and necessary in order to enter Heaven. Restricting individual behavior to the right answer to every problem on a test would be cheating. Also, only specific groups of Protestants believe that God already knows who is going to Heaven and who is going to Hell. Not all Christians necessarily believe that.
Anonymous E double-posted this 1 week ago, 5 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,338,545
@1,338,540 (Summatron !06NY4sFIG.)
There are also some denominations of Christianity like Catholicism where they believe that people who are imperfect but neither completely good nor completely evil are first purified in Purgatory before entering Heaven. Catholics also believe that whether you enter Heaven is dependent on whether you are willing to accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ, not on what you actually did wrong in life. So murder wouldn’t be classified as unforgivable and it would be possible for a murderer to enter Heaven.
My point about Luigi is mostly about "free will". Imagine God sees two people about to meet. God can prevent them from meeting. By maybe letting a bolt break on a vehicle, the butterfly effect will stop them meeting. But if they do meet, they will marry and on the 25th December 2055 their child will eat blueberry cheesecake. God knows this. So the couple lack free will from the moment the bolt doesn't break. Plus the child lacks free will.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 week ago, 2 minutes later, 55 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,338,547
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Idk about other denominations, but generally in Catholicism the explanation for why God permits evil is because it allows for greater good, but humans can’t necessarily appreciate how because we don’t know everything.
Anonymous F double-posted this 1 week ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,338,551
Really myself I don’t think of evil as a "thing" as much as a description. Normal people make mistakes, but there are certain people who go beyond "making mistakes."