The earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and filled with violence.” (Genesis 6:5-11) Then approximately one thousand years after the creation of Adam, a man who was a type, a foreshadowing of the Messiah was born, Noah. He did not fit the pattern for his generation. He found favor in the Lord, for he was a righteous man, blameless in his time and he walked with God. Because of the violence in the earth, God told Noah his plan to destroy and clean the earth with water. Noah was instructed how to build an Ark, save Him, his family and some animals.
As the Bible says, the just shall live by faith (Hab. 2:4). Second, God may be letting evil run its course in order to prove that evil is malignant and that suffering, which is the unfortunate product of evil, is further proof that anything contrary to God’s will is bad, harmful, painful, and leads to death. God gave Adam dominion over the world (Gen. 1:28). When he rebelled against God, he set in motion an entire series of events and changed the very nature of man and creation.
Mill argues that if God designed the universe he wouldn’t have created something containing any evil at all it wouldn’t fit in with his description. Within the world exists two types of evil; natural evil and human evil. Examples of natural evil are natural disasters which have no human involvement such as; volcanic eruption, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. These disasters cause death and suffering of millions of innocent humans. Surely and all loving (omnibenevolent) God wouldn’t allow this.
As he said that in fact evil comes from angels and human beings who chose deliberately to deny and disobey what God had taught them, by turning away from him and what he had wished for mankind. Augustine believed that every human being was an offshoot of Adam and hence that every single person in the world is guilty of evil, this is as it was Adam who committed ultimate sin in the Garden of Eden. Augustine believed very strongly that evil should be punished. Therefore it was Augustine’s theodicy that said that natural evil in the world is a fitting punishment for moral wickedness. He strongly believed that evil is solely a result of human rebellion.
Matthew McKee Would you kill your child if “GOD” told you to? Why? Why not? Defend your answer. Any deity who would bestow upon an innocent, faithful man with such a sinister request is no deity to me.
Because of Cain improper attitude, and lack of true faith God sentenced Cain to life of a vagabond. He graciously shielded him with divine protection letting any human being kill him in revenge. Genesis
Falon Amanda Moss Prof. Edmond Lisa ENC 1102—Virtual Class 20 October 2011 Eliezer’s Faith Struggle Most people ask the question why is there evil? If God is all good then why did he create people who are evil and that rebel? To the unbelievers, and the atheists, this would be their argument. How can an omnipotent, benevolent God allow evil? Eliezer started to struggle with this same question.
However, on the day of the great controversy all was revealed that Satan was the true deceiver and God was indeed to be worshipped. On that final day Satan persistent as he has always been he tries to still rally a final assault against God and the saints who accepted him. Even when Satan gathers all the wicked who where powerful in battle (before their death) he still cannot defeat God and his army. When God appears from the holy city he wipes out who are with Satan with a holy fire from heaven. After the second death the earth is destroyed free of all sin and then lord replenishes the earth and it becomes the New Jerusalem.
In Brave New World this believes doesn’t even appear for one moment. The society life in a regime controlled by Mustapha Mond, the most powerful men in the World State. The liberty doesn’t mean anything to him. Actually, even before a person is born, they lose their liberties because they are conditioned to love and like what Mustapha and the government want them to love and like; people are created chemically, they are artificial. After reading this, a Christian will be horrified because they believe that even before the baby is born, since the moment when an egg is fertilized, that future individual is consider as a person with sentiments and rights.
Biblical texts state that God is forgiving, merciful, loving, omnipotent and above all, good. Yet how can it be true that God forgave the Jewish people for their sins and had the power to prevent the Holocaust but did not do so? It leads to the notion that either God is not all powerful so was not capable of thwarting the atrocities of World War 2, or God is not altogether caring and merciful. Ignaz Maybaum examined this concept further by stating that the Holocaust was God’s judgement over the past. He believed that “Hitler served as a divine instrument for the reconstruction of modern Jewish life.” In his mind it was clear that the death of 6 million Jews took place because as a community, Jews are responsible for each other’s actions and there had been enough sin for God to take necessary action.