tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post113313115709038401..comments2023-07-06T15:14:57.204+01:00Comments on JOHN'S BLOG: Why a Good God Should Allow SufferingJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156782727444251392006-08-28T17:32:00.000+01:002006-08-28T17:32:00.000+01:00Hey steven - how about you post comments on the po...Hey steven - how about you post comments on the posts to which they are relevant?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156782671866510242006-08-28T17:31:00.000+01:002006-08-28T17:31:00.000+01:00"God always does the moral thing, so allowing abor..."God always does the moral thing, so allowing abortion is the moral thing to do."<BR/><BR/>Glaring error here. The moral thing for an omnipotent deity is not necessarily also the moral thing for people. In this case, God allows people to choose how they use their abilities and advises us to use them for good.<BR/><BR/>For what it's worth, most Christians I know do much the same when it comes to Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156768713178583352006-08-28T13:38:00.000+01:002006-08-28T13:38:00.000+01:00Would God allow errors in the Bible?He seems to al...Would God allow errors in the Bible?<BR/><BR/>He seems to allow pretty much everything else.Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156765828712102192006-08-28T12:50:00.000+01:002006-08-28T12:50:00.000+01:00'I'm more than happy to trust that God knows exact...'I'm more than happy to trust that God knows exactly what he is doing, that though there is often pain, God will not let it be more than we can endure...'<BR/><BR/>God will not allow any more abortions than we can endure.<BR/><BR/>So clearly we are nowhere near that limit yet.<BR/><BR/>Or else God would have acted, and not just pass by on the other side when a baby is in trouble.Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156765730819767132006-08-28T12:48:00.000+01:002006-08-28T12:48:00.000+01:00If God allows abortion, who are we to try to ban i...If God allows abortion, who are we to try to ban it?<BR/><BR/>God always does the moral thing, so allowing abortion is the moral thing to do.Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156680884856213512006-08-27T13:14:00.000+01:002006-08-27T13:14:00.000+01:00I completely agree. God allows abortion just the s...I completely agree. God allows abortion just the same as he allows other kinds of murder. He allows us corporately to suffer the consequences of our own actions.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1156680128763058722006-08-27T13:02:00.000+01:002006-08-27T13:02:00.000+01:00'In God's economy, nothing is wasted. There is a p...'In God's economy, nothing is wasted. There is a point to everything, even if we can't see it.'<BR/><BR/>That is what I keep telling people.<BR/><BR/>There is a point to abortion, even if we can't see it.<BR/><BR/>The fact that we are not clever enough to know why God allows abortion is a stupid reason to doubt the wisdom of God in permitting abortion.Steven Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11983601793874190779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1136245117788413622006-01-02T23:38:00.000+00:002006-01-02T23:38:00.000+00:00I've received an e-mail about this, and am replyin...I've received an e-mail about this, and am replying here as it might be of interest to others. My correspondant's words are in italics.<BR/><BR/><I>A question about your suggestion about why we should expect evil if God is good: how do your reasons apply to Heaven? They would tend to suggest that Heaven isn't perfectly good as we couldn't appreciate God's goodness properly since there's no Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1133210973948805732005-11-28T20:49:00.000+00:002005-11-28T20:49:00.000+00:00As I said at the start, I don't think it's necessa...As I said at the start, I don't think it's necessarily a clinching argument. I think it's a decent plausibility argument to show that even the <I>a priori</I> case isn't as cut and dried as it's often portrayed.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487495921222083129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18654361.post-1133208300896313682005-11-28T20:05:00.000+00:002005-11-28T20:05:00.000+00:00But isn't this just a defence for someone who's al...But isn't this just a defence for someone who's already made their mind up? Isn't it possible to argue anything that way? Given the evidence, isn't some other alternative more logical and likely?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com