He ought to read the Bible and barring this, listen to my podcast The Epicurean Paradox Unpacked. Epicurus proposition assumes a condition that does not exist. God and evil do not co-exist. God is transcendent. He is not immersed in this evil paradigm. Confusion over the meaning of transcendence, permits atheists to mock the death of Jesus. Why would God, they ask, send himself to pretend to die just to forgive men for being in a situation He created? One cannot assume conditions incompatible with a proposition then declare the conditions you created disproves the proposition. No, all you have done is demonstrate the premises of your argument are faulty.
People who are smart, think that their intelligence translates to everything else in life. Not true. But when it comes to faith, each person thinks he can navigate. He says because of disease and child suffering, either God is not God or God is not good. But he forgets about Choice and He mentions God, but does not mention the false god. There is a false god and if you do not submit to the True God, you are by default owned by the false god. And that false god has his children blinded. There is no democracy in the spiritual realm folks. That's only in America. The point is, he thinks he knows more about life than God does. It's called Hubris.
@TheSkeptic4122 Whose moral standard should be permitted to be used in legislation?
@TheSkeptic4122 Games developers don't make games where everyone is forced to do what the developers want, you get to do what you want within their framework otherwise whats the point, no one would play it. The devs could come in and do anything they want, but they don't, it would ruin the game
Good and evil are a matter of perspective, they are subjective, and from The Most High's perspective, like screaming infants, mankind is deafened, dumbed, and blinded by their own babel. This is likened to the clay telling the potter, "How dare you!", or "How could you?". Freewill is the greater good taken for granted here. Calamity is, but not limited too, the consequences of the choices we make both individually, and as a society. Calamity can also be presented as a test on what one will do, visa vi, trials and tribulations, as in the example set forth in the book of Job. Are you a coward? Are you going to cry like a little bitch when death/duty calls? It is the debt all must pay anyway. Does one not amputate a limb to preserve the whole? My Father creates them, and gives them life at no upfront cost to them, and all they do is bitch. Human beings are such hypocrites, they bench test everything for endurance, performance, ect..., they even tempt God himself with their proverbial asses in the air, yet they cry like little bitches when they themselves are tested. Psychologically imprisoning themselves in their own Iron Maiden through their own fear, arrogance, and pride. The fallacy here is the mindset of mortality of the flesh. We are eternal souls, the Earth is merely a playground for which we are expected to learn, to be sorted, to be weighed and measured, much like crops at a harvest. Countless fail daily. Every person's trials are unique, as they themselves are a matter of perspective to the individual beholder, and other than oneself, only God knows the matters that are truly of another's heart, as we are all naked before The Most High. We are loved, but we are not needed. Our lives are but a grain of sand in a much larger scheme, yet the narcissistic little meat puppets carry on babbling, having still not yet learned how to be still, and how to listen to Our Father who ART... Word, ya heard / herd. youtube.com/watch?v=Ift1YO…
@TheSkeptic4122 I’ve seen the news stories of students of mine, children, burned to death in a house fire. There was no intervention. I’ve heard many stories from the mouths of children about being abused. At best god is a spectator.
@TheSkeptic4122 He should also simply and boldly say: There is no God to believe in. He’s an astrophysicist. He should know that there is no god orchestrating or intervening in what’s happening in the universe. Period.
@TheSkeptic4122 Ever been in Central Park, and see those upper-middle-class moms that panic if their trophy kids get out of their sight for even one second? It’s possible to be TOO smothering a parent.