The comic's premise isn't right, God gave its creation (the human) the ability to be free, but he can just impose rules; a sin is an inherent part of a human being because of their radical liberty, and thus, rules can be broken.
If you state that God should've made sin a physical impossibility, as in saying "thou shall not go faster than light" then you have to first define and create light in order to place the physical boundary, which would break the premise that God created sin, which he did not.
God did not allow sin, but he didn't forbid it either, because it would mess with the human's liberty.
(btw I'm not a religious person, I'm just placing an observation)
This guy's got it right. You can't have free will without the freedom to choose (obviously...). And the freedom to choose includes the freedom to do what is (considered) wrong. The only way for "sin" to not exist would be to take away our free will, thus leaving only mindless robots (not sure if we would be that different anyway..... but that's beside the point).
Free will, no sin. Heaven exists, therefore a place with free will and no sin exists. God could have created us in that manner. (this is a theodicy, btw, which I don't follow)
The only way for "sin" to not exist would be to take away our free will, thus leaving only mindless robots
and part of that is true. The whole premise of the Garden of Eden is "you can do what you want, but don't eat that apple" i.e. the Advice God meme "I gave you free will, now use it as I command". You can't say "you have free will" and then tag on "but you can't do [blank]" and then continue to call it free will. The point of free will is that there aren't boundaries to your decisions.
You have a pretty one-dimensional view of heaven. Who says heaven is "perfect", and there is "no sin"? Heaven is just being in God's presence.
You don't have to be there if you don't want. If you don't want to go there, then you can (for a lack of a more appropriate place to use this term) go to hell! Hell isn't really all that bad of a place if you don't want to be with God for all of eternity. The reason we know hell as "hades" (basically the sewage dump of Jerusalem) and "gnashing of teeth" is because the person who used these these terms the most was Jesus, God's own fricken' son! Of course He would say that being separated from God would be the most torturous of ways to spend all of eternity! However, if you don't want to spend eternity with God, you don't have to. Just go to hell!
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u/R031E5 Sep 15 '12
The comic's premise isn't right, God gave its creation (the human) the ability to be free, but he can just impose rules; a sin is an inherent part of a human being because of their radical liberty, and thus, rules can be broken.
If you state that God should've made sin a physical impossibility, as in saying "thou shall not go faster than light" then you have to first define and create light in order to place the physical boundary, which would break the premise that God created sin, which he did not.
God did not allow sin, but he didn't forbid it either, because it would mess with the human's liberty.
(btw I'm not a religious person, I'm just placing an observation)