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Originally Posted by Bond
I believe I said that some would view the existence of evil logically incompatible with God.
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Anyone who believes that has a huge misunderstanding about religion in general. Ask yourself, what is evil? According to the most religions, anything that's against their god's will is evil, and everything god approves of is good. Some religons support war, some don't. Some support people haiving 10 wives, some don't. Some support worldy lusts, some don't.
So all in all, whoever said evil is relative is correct.
The general consent from christians is that god created men with free will, just because he wanted men to
chose him themselves. Of course, men would frown upon this idea, but that's what's believed to be true generally.
If he wanted mindless slaves who had no choice but to follow him and who had no will to do evil or suffer whatsoever.. well, we wouldn't be haivng this conversation. :P Maybe he felt that having people chose to follow him was better than enforcing the will on people to follow him.
So following god and his own morals is good, rejecting them is evil. And if someone rejects it he has every right to react however he wants to it... cause he's god?
Hope that clears it up somewhat for you. According to religion: Following him = good, not following = evil, god himself = whatever he wants to be... you can call him good or evil, that's your choice. Most people who believe and follow would call him good for giving them the oppertunity in the first place.