Is God evil?

[Compassionist]

There are many verses in the Bible about God's predestination. https://www.openbible.info/topics/predestination Why would a good God predestine anyone to do evil? Surely, a good God would predestine all to do good? Does the existence of evil prove that God is evil? Surely, a good God would have made all living things to be autotrophs instead of making some autotrophs, some herbivores, some carnivores, some omnivores, and some parasites? Here are some examples of evil events which caused or are causing suffering, deaths, and injustices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n ... death_toll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_g ... death_toll
https://thevegancalculator.com/animal-slaughter

[Davado]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

[Davado]

And I concur.(forgot reason for posting)
The Bible tells us that everything is predestined.
It's weird that some Christians pretend it doesn't.
Wishful thinking I suppose.
Which also makes all the churchgoing pointless.
And the singing to a God that people claim to love.

I love you Jesus

Praise the Lord
Hallelujah......

Pathetic. Where's their self respect?

Firstly you cannot possibly love him since you haven't even met him.
You fear him.
With good reason.
He does nasty things to people.
And that sums up Christianity basically.

Some of us reject God on principle
And to hell with the consequences.
But most grovel to him out of fear of hell.
They're known as christians

[JoeyKnothead]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

It helps the observer to know just what comments one wishes to gnaw on.

[William]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

It helps the observer to know just what comments one wishes to gnaw on.

It also helps the reader follow along as to who is arguing with who...

[JoeyKnothead]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

It helps the observer to know just what comments one wishes to gnaw on.

It also helps the reader follow along as to who is arguing with who...

It allows those unaware of the particular comments one is replying to, to follow along.

[William]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

It helps the observer to know just what comments one wishes to gnaw on.

It also helps the reader follow along as to who is arguing with who...

It allows those unaware of the particular comments one is replying to, to follow along.

Yes. It is essentially a necessary thing to do, out of respect for the readers, collectively.

[JoeyKnothead]

My mind is filled by the endless quoting.
Why do it ? Can't we all read the responses above yours ?
I've never quoted anyone. It's easy

It helps the observer to know just what comments one wishes to gnaw on.

It also helps the reader follow along as to who is arguing with who...

It allows those unaware of the particular comments one is replying to, to follow along.

Yes. It is essentially a necessary thing to do, out of respect for the readers, collectively.

Agreed. We can't assume the observer has been following the conversation from its beginning.

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to JoeyKnothead in post #149

This site is a great example of gods being reflective of their promoters. I look at the loving and caring theists, and worship their gods. Then I look at the hateful theists, and spit on theirs.

Really? I like to think of myself as a loving, caring theist and about all I can recall you responding to my concept of God with is snarky skepticism, which I wouldn't call worship.

Have I given you some reason to lump me into the other theist camp?

[Davado]

Thanks for the chain of quoted responses.
Very funny

[Davado]

Thanks for the chain of quoted responses.
Very funny