If God can do anything can he make a mistake?

   That's a fascinating question.  I think it would be a more profitable use of my time trying to make as few of my own mistakes as possible.

   Perfect "by definition," sure.

Speak for yourself. 

Chapter and verse for this view?



This suggests things are made right just because God does them - as opposed to the idea that He always does the things which are right in the first place.  It might be observed that the former lets the deity off the hook when it orders mass murder for instance, and that He is the measure against which all genocide can be judged - but it makes for some awkward pleading. (We can also see God as the standard for rage, jealousy and anger etc in fact anything He sets His mind to.)

   I prefer to describe myself as practical.

   I'll do the best I can to avoid being insulting in addressing these issues.  So I will just ask questions here.

   Who are you?  What is your plan to address evil?  How can you tell which is evil?

   Have you never heard of free will?  Are you prepared to take that away?  Who then gives the orders?  You?

1. Epicurious probably didn't say that

2. Even if he did say it, it's flawed reasoning- something akin to an ant thinking a human should not step on it. No one actually cares what the ant thinks.

3. Disease and mean people are not a willful creation of God and more than likely is more the result of the bad habits and instruction of humans. This might be a decent argument if one thought free will didn;t exist, but let's assume there people having smarter conversations than that here.

God deliberately only made a creation that was, He thought, 'very good' and so not perfect. If everything is 'designed' then He necessarily designed childhood cancers as well as much of the cruelty and waste which is a hallmark of nature generally or a universe largely cold dark and 'empty'.. As far as I am aware things like Covid are not as the result of the bad habits or instructions of humans - unless you are one of those wishing to see the disease and suffering as a punishment from the deity. (I'd accept that the pandemic probably started from poor hygene at an animal market, but the virus still needed to exist in the first place) God, as always needs to be reminded of believers in such disputes, also specifically admits to making natural evil at least (or 'misfortune') in Isiah, and in not such a way as to suggest it was just for then, either.



The notion that an allegedly caring and loving god, who apparently sacrificed his only begotten son for our benefit, thinks as much of us as an insect to be crushed underfoot, is something hard to find in scripture. Perhaps you might have more luck finding chapter and verse for this?

I'm going to really alienate fundamentalists with what is obvious, that the good God couldn't have created the physical laws and environment our souls experience. Indeed, he sent his son to save us from the "prison" that Satan has us in. The laws of Heaven are far superior to the laws we live by, whether man mad or laws of Physics. That's been proven, actually. 

View God's omnipotence as everything in his Universe but this tiny box which we call our Universe. The tiny box devised by Satan as our prison. How we got here, who knows?

In effect, we're born in the flesh, which means we're sons and daughters of Satan, and Jesus saved us from that. Now, our souls (our meter readers, not the meters, but the readers of the meters), are likely created by the good God, but maybe not. In either event, somehow, the fall from grace put us in this inferior world. The rules made by Satan to leave were rigged and impossible for man to fulfill, but not impossible to the good God.