Why does God allow bad things and suffering?

Why does God allow bad things and suffering? Jun 12, 2017 11:14:11 GMT

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Post by cupcakes on Jun 12, 2017 11:14:11 GMT

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Karl Aksel said: You have the ability to choose, sure - but you are always going to choose the more preferable option according to your personality. Go back in time and change nothing, and you will make the exact same choices, every time, with 100% accuracy.

Nor would that be remarkable. Not that it is even necessarily possible, but in the hypothetical. Everything we do is by definition because we preferred to do it. "Free will" doesn't require incoherencies like expecting an exact being with exactly the same properties, time etc., to arbitrarily make different/random choices. "Free will" founded on deranged behaviour is a useless version of free will indeed.

There is a reason we choose the way we do, for every choice we make (even if it isn't always clear what those reasons are, even to ourselves). These reasons are beyond our control.

There is a reason for everything that happens, again nothing remarkable about that. Having "reasons", i.e. "existing" does not in any way preclude it being free will. Not having reasons would make it, colloquially, insanity.

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