₦airaland Forum

yetseyi:
so sorry tex, Hope no injuries?

undercat:
Have a go?

undercat:
Some say evil* exists because of the exercise of free will, i.e. people choose to do evil. Interestingly, the Creator also has free will but is said to be unable to choose evil. All this is in an effort to absolve the Creator of any blame for the existence of evil. What this claim actually does is credit the Creator with giving us evil as an option between various courses of action. It is impossible to select an unavailable option and we cannot choose to do evil if evil is not available to be chosen.

Some might further say that evil is the absence of good and that if we are able to choose to do good, we must also be able to choose to not do good. To them I give the example of (physical) life and death, the absence of life; you can choose to die but you cannot choose to not die. So it is arguably permissible to lack a complete set of options.

How would you avoid the conclusion that evil was created for us to choose?

*Evil here excludes natural processes such as disease and disasters.

JackBizzle:
I left Nairaland for almost a year, only to come and meet a barren wasteland, lacking seriously in intellectual topics.

However, there is hope- I see my fellow atheists (Plaetton and onetrack) still keeping on in the religion section.

Also, who is johnydon22? Because I like the guy! Fire on, bro.


Ehem. I also see that the islamic section is as dead as ever. Empiree, vedaxcool, rilwon, albaqir, wetin dey?


I also see thatwe have a new Mr Anony in the person of KingEbukasBlog. lol


Wassap, Muskeeto? Judas IsCARROT?

llaykorn:
You would have made my list too. Sincerely!

Donifez, Adanna28, kr0ne, and JigsawKillah too would have.

all4naija:
1) All4naija(perhaps I am biased with this one)

2) SamulheB

3) Texanomaly

4) Adanna28

5) Rokiatu