"Jim" <nospam@nospam.nospam.net> wrote in message
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"Randy Story" <rstorynw@olypen.com> wrote in message
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So if I see a person visciously beating a helpless child, should

"take away his freedom" or act in a manner consistent with God's

will

- let him

do

as he pleases in order to help "produce a greater good"?

You have a responsibility to have mercy on the child because you

cant

give the child back his life once taken.

But the god does not have this responsibility when he wipes out an

entire

village in a flood that sends water into a previously arid area?

god

is supposed to be a parent figure. Some example it is, eh?

Your wrong assumption is that he causes the flood instead of just
allowing it. Again the only way to stop all suffering would be to stop

all

freewill of freedom, freedom of others, freedom of nature, etc.
I know for a fact you would not want him to interfere in this way.

So malaria, cancer, anthrax, etc are not God causing anything (though He
created all of them), it is just allowing "freedom of nature"? God
certainly could have created a world without parasites and not

freedom (though in a world without parasites, what would politicians

.

Exactly right, parasites serve good purposes just as some politicians
do. First we would have to show that an individual parasite or germ serve

good purpose. It is quite possible that if all nature was in harmony there
would be no problem. In fact the Bible gives us a glimpse of exactly that
type of world. "The lion shall lie down with the lamb" 'the young boy

play by the cobra's den". These verses picture a world where nature is

at rest and in harmony. The problem is we have to wait!.