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If God is good, whence comes evil? And if God did not create evil, he is the only creator?
Can we resolve this paradox of the ancient Gnostics, taken today by analytic philosophers and skeptics (and depressed)?
1) God is infinitely good and creates a good world light - which does not shade as additional light. Without alternating outside-in, no possible universe. This world is
bright because it is not tainted by evil. We say it is both perfect and undetermined as infinite in its potential manifestations. A world "evil" would necessarily be determined and limited in its manifestations (there would be no chance, we would know everything in the future).
2) When the world is created, evil does not exist, nor the time at least as we know it (aging and entropy). We can perfectly represent us as a world subject to imagine other forms of consciousness, logical presupposition in a world infinity.
So the world created by God is necessarily good for the improbable is possible.
3) If God is good, it necessarily creates a being endowed with reason, that is capable of choice. A God "bad" can not create a creature deprived of free will, a PLC. A rational person is capable of making improbable, otherwise it is a limited and chained to his creator.
4) God is not responsible for the choice made by the creature, only its design. If God intervened in the choice of his creature, it would be a God "wrong" because the creature would not be free. A mother is she responsible for the crimes committed by their child to adulthood? No, it is only responsible for having conceived this child.
5) The creature decides to make a choice contrary to the interests intended by its creator: it revolt. is his absolute right, otherwise it would not be free, and God would be "bad."
6) If God is omnipotent, his universe is magical , in the sense that the rebellious creature is hiding itself from the world created by God. If it was not God himself would be tainted by evil, which is absurd (it is not all-powerful).
This parallel world in which the creature is hiding in revolt, it our world.
is because the original world is perfect, so unlikely in its consequences, it appears that the imperfection.
This does not mean that the imperfection becomes the law of the world created by God who is eternally perfect (for unknown). Or that the imperfection was to appear. The imperfection is eternally subordinate to the divine perfection, being linked only to the creature. Absolute evil can not claim to eternity as his power of action is limited to the world of creature (relative world of subordination). The creature is
free to renounce God, but unable to be equal to God, if not the world created by God is not perfect, and God is not omnipotent.
7) The flaw applies only to the consequences induced by the choice of the creature and not the creature itself, which is perfect as a creation of God (as unpredictable). An imperfect creature could not take that bad decisions (ie limited), and, again, God is a God "bad".
This imperfection leads, however, that God can manifest itself in our world by signs that we can strive to decipher. We may also deny just those signs (since we are free).
8) God is a God "very good", he never gambled on the possibility a real fall of his creature, although this possibility was known to him.
So God had no part in our evil otherwise it would be "bad" and we would not be free to choose between God and his dummies.
Can we resolve this paradox of the ancient Gnostics, taken today by analytic philosophers and skeptics (and depressed)?
1) God is infinitely good and creates a good world light - which does not shade as additional light. Without alternating outside-in, no possible universe. This world is
bright because it is not tainted by evil. We say it is both perfect and undetermined as infinite in its potential manifestations. A world "evil" would necessarily be determined and limited in its manifestations (there would be no chance, we would know everything in the future).
2) When the world is created, evil does not exist, nor the time at least as we know it (aging and entropy). We can perfectly represent us as a world subject to imagine other forms of consciousness, logical presupposition in a world infinity.
So the world created by God is necessarily good for the improbable is possible.
3) If God is good, it necessarily creates a being endowed with reason, that is capable of choice. A God "bad" can not create a creature deprived of free will, a PLC. A rational person is capable of making improbable, otherwise it is a limited and chained to his creator.
4) God is not responsible for the choice made by the creature, only its design. If God intervened in the choice of his creature, it would be a God "wrong" because the creature would not be free. A mother is she responsible for the crimes committed by their child to adulthood? No, it is only responsible for having conceived this child.
5) The creature decides to make a choice contrary to the interests intended by its creator: it revolt. is his absolute right, otherwise it would not be free, and God would be "bad."
6) If God is omnipotent, his universe is magical , in the sense that the rebellious creature is hiding itself from the world created by God. If it was not God himself would be tainted by evil, which is absurd (it is not all-powerful).
This parallel world in which the creature is hiding in revolt, it our world.
is because the original world is perfect, so unlikely in its consequences, it appears that the imperfection.
This does not mean that the imperfection becomes the law of the world created by God who is eternally perfect (for unknown). Or that the imperfection was to appear. The imperfection is eternally subordinate to the divine perfection, being linked only to the creature. Absolute evil can not claim to eternity as his power of action is limited to the world of creature (relative world of subordination). The creature is
free to renounce God, but unable to be equal to God, if not the world created by God is not perfect, and God is not omnipotent.
7) The flaw applies only to the consequences induced by the choice of the creature and not the creature itself, which is perfect as a creation of God (as unpredictable). An imperfect creature could not take that bad decisions (ie limited), and, again, God is a God "bad".
This imperfection leads, however, that God can manifest itself in our world by signs that we can strive to decipher. We may also deny just those signs (since we are free).
8) God is a God "very good", he never gambled on the possibility a real fall of his creature, although this possibility was known to him.
So God had no part in our evil otherwise it would be "bad" and we would not be free to choose between God and his dummies.
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