tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931579729864611467.post8914332356664780656..comments2023-10-31T05:37:16.659-07:00Comments on A Guy in the Pew: Yes, another post on the "Problem of Evil"Chuck Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417638725063186710noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931579729864611467.post-91501271550701031482008-06-10T08:24:00.000-07:002008-06-10T08:24:00.000-07:00"The dignity of human beatitude depends on the dra..."The dignity of human beatitude depends on the drama of the life that goes before it, and the choices that shape that drama take place in time, which is freedom’s element."<BR/><BR/>This doesn't seem like a very useful answer. Again, the problem is that either free will is such an important thing that it legitimizes intricately designed death and suffering... but then this theology spins around and says that a timeless/eternity of no choices is a perfectly acceptable state of affairs. <BR/><BR/>Tossing in claims about the drama of human misery being necessary for this eternity to work don't really help the argument any. This person cannot show that these things are in any way necessary, and insisting that they are demanded by human dignity is, well, a little repulsively backwards. Nor does this answer any of the questions concerning the fact that freedom to choose and having good character to begin with are not at all logically incompatible, nor are any actions God might take to dramatically reduce suffering in the world. <BR/><BR/>And indeed, if a nice grandma who lives out a good Christian life in a peaceful era and a tortured child ravaged by disease and loses his family to genocide and then dies young can both live lives with "choices and drama" and end up in heaven, then its not at all clear what the point of the disease ravaging and genocide was.Badhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07225890125470949454noreply@blogger.com