Why does God allow bad things and suffering?

Why does God allow bad things and suffering? Jun 11, 2017 18:19:04 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2017 18:19:04 GMT

Jun 11, 2017 18:10:55 GMT The Herald Erjen said:

Jun 11, 2017 18:02:03 GMT @miccee said:

The will is the product of the inputs. Our brain processes what goes in and then produces an output. The range of inputs is immense and includes what we are disposed to do by our genes, out upbringing, our immediate environment, our preferences, etc.

I disagree. As an example I use people who have been in drug rehab. Some remain free of the influence for the rest of their lives, and others eventually go back to it. It depends on the will of the individual.

Because it depends upon people's nature how susceptible they are to reverting to those bad habits, which is determined by myriad factors. People act in accordance with their will, but they do not choose their own will.

[/quote]By the way, in the Axis countries during WWII the governments controlled all the input they had at their disposal, which at that time was limited only to newspapers and radio, yet there was still some internal opposition. How would you explain that?[/quote]

Because you can't control absolutely all the input, and they cannot retroactively erase the influences to which people were exposed prior to the limitations that they implemented. You can't determine the nature of someone's personality unless you've been able to control them from the start (including the environment in which they were reared), and you can't manipulate the way that an individual's genes predisposes them to react to certain stimuli. The more that you can control the inputs, then the greater the predictability of the output, although it is never realistic to expect to be able to control all the inputs.