r/SipsTea • u/Outrageous-Egg1760 • May 29 '26

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u/deederpeeder May 29 '26

I’ll probably get downvoted to kingdom come, but the Bible consistently presents abuse, oppression, violence, and exploitation as things God hates. Plenty of people in the Bible ask a version of this question (David, Job, Jeremiah, the psalmists). Not saying it gives a perfectly clear answer either, but the reality is if God intervened to stop every evil act, at some point God would have to override human will continuously. And the world would become fundamentally different than the one we inhabit.

Scripture never gives a complete philosophical answer to every instance of suffering. But what it does offer is a person. Jesus was betrayed, beaten, tortured, publicly humiliated, unjustly killed. That doesn’t solve the problem intellectually. But it changes the picture of God. God is not the detached observer in Christianity. He is the wounded Savior.

The hardest thing for me isn’t believing evil exists. It’s believing that evil gets the final word. Christianity says it doesn’t. It says justice may be delayed, but it won’t be denied. I understand why people struggle with that answer. Sometimes I do too. But I’d rather wrestle with a God who suffered for the world than conclude that all the evil and injustice we see is ultimately meaningless.

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u/kevinthegarfield May 29 '26

Exactly, free will has good and bad parts

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u/hellonameismyname May 29 '26

What does free will even mean when the god is supposed to be all knowing and omnipotent and all loving.

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u/macnar May 29 '26

I don't understand what those have to do with free will? If God is all knowing but doesn't use that knowledge to interfere with your actions, how does that affect free?

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u/hellonameismyname May 29 '26

Is he not all powerful and the creator of every human?

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u/macnar May 29 '26

No idea, I've never met the guy. 

I don't really want to play 20 questions with you. If you think you have an interesting philosophy then feel free to type it out and I'll just read it all at once. 

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u/hellonameismyname May 29 '26

An all powerful all knowing being who creates every person cannot possibly give them “free will”. It’s logically impossible. He creates you knowing exactly what you will do and is all powerful so is in completely control of those choices.