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Originally Posted by asaris
In response to Autochron:
...But being perfectly just, if he created, had to create beings whose end was Himself...
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I don't agree on this point. To destine humans to eventually come to God would be to make the act worthless. Free will is crucial; just as an airbag cannot be courageous a being that is destined to good cannot be praised, and one destined to evil cannot be punished.
This does not keep God from having a plan or being omniscient, it is just required for anything we do to have worth.
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Originally Posted by asaris
On[e] True = Good = Beautiful. I wish I had a proof, I really do.
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It is good that you don't have proof, because if you did then there would be no merit to your belief.
Unrelated to the quote above it has been established that natural disasters are not inherently evil, but a rather strange modification has been made: that natural disasters are not evil in themselves, but are in the effects they have. What? I don't see how that follows.
In order to talk about good and evil there needs to be a definition of both. It has already been established that good and evil are different from the biological requirements of humans; hunger is not inherently evil, pleasure is not inherently good. Good and evil are intertwined with ethics, which makes religious references fair game.
God is good. God does good things, and things that go against God are evil. God did not create evil, he created Free Will. Free Will gives us the choice between good and evil, between doing what God wants and not.