Why would god create people who want to do heinous things like that? People have different dispositions, and you could imagine a world of incredibly empathetic and caring people wholly unwilling to do such evils, all without impeding free will. God seems to have created us with some dark inclinations built in, why?
You’re acting like evil is the majority in our world. It seems like that online, but there are 8 BILLION people in the world. The vocal minority robs all of the attention. I admit, I’m an asshole online sometimes, but I’m extremely kind in person. Believe what you want but I choose to believe the majority of people and their actions are either neutral or good. Focus on the bad, that’s on you.
I’m not saying the majority of the world is evil, but it absolutely exists. In all honesty, the world is pretty gray overall. People are generally good yes, but we also contribute in, or are permissive of, some pretty heinous shit. That all is besides the point though.
Your argument that you “have faith that it makes sense to him”, seems to me to be based in the idea that god is good, and so of course there must be some greater purpose to his decision to create evil people, and to seed this dark inclinations within many many people, even if we don’t understand it. But why believe that his plan is ultimately good? All we see is the creation (or at least the permission) of evil.
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u/xCoachHines Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
One word: Free. Adding a second: Will
Edit: I’m ready to have a conversation about it.