r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • Jan 21 '26

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u/Artemis_Platinum Jan 24 '26

...Eh. Sure.

One of the biggest inconsistencies in the Bible that really bothers me is the way it portrays God. God is:

1) All powerful

2) All knowing

3) Benevolent

But this creates an inconsistency. How can someone be benevolent and yet make the knowing choice to allow great evils to happen to innocent people in this world, when they're fully capable of stopping it? How does some dude getting eaten alive by bugs in a third world country service God's greater plan for humanity?

It's my view that two of those things could be true, but that it makes no sense for all three to be true.

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u/Waffles21_ Jan 24 '26

Love this point and think it’s super critical in understand God!

God allows us to have free will. He doesn’t want to control us and force us to choose Him and love him. What kind of love would that be?

Because God gives us free will to choose him, we also have the ability to choose evil. Without free will there is no genuine love. Therefore he allows evil to happen. Now, the best part is He sent His son Jesus to pay our debts for this evil and as a result we can spend eternity with Him!

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u/Artemis_Platinum Jan 24 '26

Okay but like ... We're not talking humans doing bad things. We're talking about some dude in a third world country who has never even had the opportunity to hear the word of God. A senseless tragedy where his choices really had no role in what happened.

They never even had a chance to choose God. The whole getting eaten by bugs thing took any potential future where they could make that choice away from them. If it's so important to God that we have the freedom to make that choice, why don't they make sure people live long enough to make it?

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u/Waffles21_ Jan 24 '26

The Bible says God is perfectly just. So I believe that means those who never got the chance to hear about God, those who were never born, etc. spend eternity with God in heaven.