I recently read some essays on whether or not God was evil.
The first one basically said that the guy didn't care if God was going to bring about salvation and forgiveness for everyone's sins. He told a story about a child who accidentally hurt a prince's prized dog. The prince found the child, stripped him, and in front of his mother had the child ripped apart by his dogs. What the author of the essay was saying was that he didn't care if everyone was forgiven in the end, he didn't want that child going unavenged. He wouldn't accept that world becuase of his own rightous feelings of justice.
The second one said that God is evil. If there was a man standing in front of a burning building and he knew that there was a baby inside, but still did nothing even though he knew that he would not be hurt at all, would you consider that man good? He would not be hurt even in the slightest by saving that baby, and he is fully capable of saving it, but he chooses not to. Is he evil? So the author went on to say that God is evil because even though he has the power to help people he chooses not to even though it wouldn't hurt him. Would it have hurt God to make Hitler fall down the stairs and save three million people? no. So is he not evil?
The third essay said that God is good because if he helped everyone out, no one would want to do anything anymore. We wouldn't have heroes or evil in the world because God would have to always step in and save everyone.
So I want to know what you guys think, is God evil? Is he good?
merged: 11-10-2005 ~ 09:19am
Umm...Ignore the poll >_>