Comments for Ernest Parker

Comment on Singing In The Rain by debra parker

debra parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:36:16 +0000

I just don’t think I will ever forget that night.

Comment on Outside The Walls pt.2 by debraparker

debraparker — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:20:57 +0000

i love you!

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by Hayley

Hayley — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:03:49 +0000

Thank you! You articulated this clearly and simply. You really broke it down for me in a way I could understand. God bless!

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by madmonq

madmonq — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:14:52 +0000

Right. God had to create it in order for man to choose it, no?

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by ernestparker

ernestparker — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:56:19 +0000

Awesome!!! Thanks for all of your comments! I love seeing the different views and opinions expressed here. This is what I hoped for with my blogs.

dove124-I’m not blaming God for the evil or sin in this world, I am saying it is a result of man’s free-will to choose right from wrong, to love or reject God, etc.

madmong-Good points and great questions. God may be “capable” if evil but will not be or do anything evil as it goes against the very character of who He is. We were created in His image, but that image was marred at the fall when Adam chose to disobey God and brought sin into this world and through that choice imputed sin to all mankind.

William-thanks for the encouragement and I totally see where you are coming from with the “can’t/ won’t” thing…

Crowmanic-deep! free-will does exist on the basis of opposites. In order to have a choice and express free-will there must be different things to choose from. I also would agree that we are “incomplete” in our “representation” of God. We are finite, fallible creatures and God is infinite and infallible (along with many other things we are not). I do believe, however, that God is a personable God and that He desires relationship with us, “His creation”, and we can experience a personal relationship with God.

Bad-It is undeniable that we all have tendencies and are inclined at times to do wrong; whether it’s lying (even the little white ones), stealing (even answers in school), lust, etc… With those tendencies comes choice and with that choice comes consequences and so on. I believe that even natural disasters, diseases, etc. are a result of evil which is a result of sin which is a result of free choice. Even if it is not a direct result then a result of the fall and the consequences of that.

Thanks again for all of your comments. I welcome different views and opinions…

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by Judy

Judy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:30:08 +0000

I would like to respond to a few people above. Bottom line - you cannot have spiritual discernment without spiritual eyes to see God and His wisdom - His plan. We live in the natural - but really knowing God is a supernatural thing. Until you have experienced His supernatural power in your life - you cannot understand God. Blessings dear ones. Thanks for this post Ernest - it opened my eyes.

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by Bad

Bad — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:47:24 +0000

I don’t understand how you can find this argument convincing. The idea that freedom to do something (evil) requires people to be inclined to do evil makes no sense.

Nor does it explain at all things like vast natural disasters that most certainly do evil, or mental diseases that cause people to mistake reality and commit evil acts without understanding what they are doing. There is no particular point to having these sorts of things in the world. Indeed, modern societies that have cures for them or ways of avoiding them get along fine: great, even. So what was the purpose of having societies in which these things dominated people’s lives? You can invent all sorts of ad hoc stories about why, but none of them really add up.

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by Crowmanic

Crowmanic — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:31:51 +0000

Its all a matter of semantics, definitions, and perspective … however, perhaps “God” is representative of the “Absolute” — One — indivisible, and given that “we” live in the realm of “duality” (more than one) it stands to reason that duality also infers “opposites”, meaning that we cannot have “something” without the “other”. We would not be able to experience without opposites, because we would have “no-thing” to compare with and hence would not be enabled to make choices, eg. good - bad, right -wrong, day -night.
“God” cannot live or abide within this world as “It” is the Creator (so to speak) of the world (as we know it), and God as such actually exists outside of the “creation” — the ultimate Consciousness. “We” as re-presentatives of “god”, in the many fragmented reflections, hence can only contain a small “fragment” or “spark” of Divine-essence within, and are not the “whole” or total. etc, etc, blah-de-blah …

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by William Petruzzo

William Petruzzo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:50:18 +0000

Very clear and articulate. I usually don’t like the words “God can’t,” because God is accountable to no one but Himself, I prefer “God won’t.” Either way, these are good words.

“The reason God doesn’t destroy evil is because He would have to destroy us as well.”

Also very well put, I was thinking this as I was reading and I’m glad it was acknowledged.

Comment on Why Does God Allow Evil? by madmonq

madmonq — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:08:19 +0000

If god created everything, doesn’t it stand to reason he also created evil and we just choose it?

If we were created in his image, isn’t it reasonable to believe god is capable of evil as well?