Posted: Mar 02, 2019 12:11 am
Arcanyn wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:On the topic of a good, interventionist god:It's called FREE WILL and depending on how you exercise this privilege, determines good or bad consequences. Each individual is SOLELY responsible for his or her consequences. Why & at what point would God even need to intervene?
Here's the thing with this. Let's say you have someone being attacked by a rapist. Mr Yahweh chooses not to intervene because he respects the free will of the rapist. But what about the victim - the victim isn't choosing to be raped - they're having their free will taken away by the rapist. So basically, what this entails, is that faced with a choice between protecting the free will of an aggressor and protecting the free will of their victim, Mr Yahweh will always prioritise the free will of the aggressor.
Or to put it another way, to paraphrase Tracie Harries; "The difference between me an your god, is that I would try to stop the rape/assault/etc."