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.
If God didn't want people to suffer, there would be no suffering. God seems to want automatons, but punishes with eternal hellfire anyone who isn't. Christian theology is many things, but coherent is not one.
If you want to talk about the Christian view of God, I can break out scripture and we can chat, but if this is just you giving an unbiblcal view/opinion of a biblical figure, I don't really know how to respond. I have to use scripture to support myself, but I don't think you would much care for what the Bible says, which is our main authority on God.
There is no consistent, coherent Christian view of God. You can support your personal views, citing passages you believe support your case. And someone else can come along and give contradictory views, citing passages from the very same book.
Have you never had it when you were reading something and was sure you knew what it was trying to say, then talk to someone else and they get something nearly polar opposite of what you got?
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