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Good article in giving a strong case for the problem of evil. Even as a Christian I appreciate an honest baring of how torturous life is. No need to whitewash i
by waynecochran 3y ago
Good article in giving a strong case for the problem of evil. Even as a Christian I appreciate an honest baring of how torturous life is. No need to whitewash it. My response, in brief, is that this is the price of creatures truly having free will. God could have created all His creatures to be benign Stepford Wives, but He decided to let us have a choice. The choices effect everyone including the innocent. Secondly, there will come a day when righteousness will reign and death, pain, and sorrow will be no more. Finally, God is not detached -- He took on flesh and suffered the horrors Himself. So He knows. He knows more than us.
- canjobear 3y agoDo caterpillars have free will? What free choices resulted in them being paralyzed and eaten alive by wasps?
- waynecochran 3y agoNo. Creation groans. The innocent suffer the effects. The Innocent One suffered.
- JackFr 3y agoMaybe your empathy towards caterpillars says more about you than it does the caterpillars. It’s difficult for me to imagine being a caterpillar let alone a paralyzed caterpillar being devoured from within. Why is there any more or less moral weight to the wasps lifecycle than any other predator along the food chain?
- utkarsh858 3y agoYes they have free will but it is covered to the extent that it mostly acts mechanically. In its current life it may not have the intelligence to act morally. But once( before it became a caterpillar ) it had a body of moral sentiment being with power of discrimination. It made bad choices at that time and thus induced suffering in current life.