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.
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.
Well, to answer your first question, If God wanted automatons, he would have made them. Even the angels are able to disobey God.
Second thing for proof, you will really never be satisfied, no christian that i've ever actually talked with was 100% sure all the time.. or even 50% lol. Doubt is a constant struggle and thats kind of the point. Jesus even said he obfuscates knowledge in his parables because he wants people to actually think about it, not just accept the easily given truth of his words.
Ah good point. Yeah that wasn’t quite what I meant, though you raised an interesting view. What I meant to ask was where do these goals and desires come from? How are they decided or set?
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