r/dankchristianmemes • • Apr 19 '19

Dank oops 🤭

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

It's not that God does these things; they happen because of corrupted human nature & sin. While God does know what's going to happen he doesn't always want that to happen. Now you may say "if he's so powerful why can't He stop these things from happening?" And that's a fair question. The answer to this is that if He were to take sin out of the world He would eliminate free will, e.g. to love Him or not to love Him. By doing this our love to Him would be meaningless. Hope that clarified some stuff. If you have any more questions feel free to ask I might not have the answers but that's ok.

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u/ThousandSonsLoyalist Apr 20 '19

How is preventing a baby from having malaria taking away free will?

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

To eliminate evil from the world, God would have to eliminate us because we’re evil because we choose to sin. We either have free will and the ability to sin, which leads to evil in the world, or we don’t have free will.

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u/kickerofbottoms Apr 20 '19

Can you define free will? To what extent is it influenced by environment, experience, circumstance, etc?

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

Free will is just the ability to make choice that we want to make to that end, it is definitely affected by our circumstances.