Duggie70 wrote:I would expect an omnipotent and benevolent God who supposedly intervenes to intervene. If he supposedly answers the prayers of the suffering, why does he not answer the prayers of the suffering?
I am suspicious of an allegedly omnibenevolent God who loves all of his creatures even as he watches them being torn apart by predators, starving, raped, drowned, burnt, tortured, disease-ridden, and possibly worse.
Such a God is not performing his job very well it seems to me.
An omnipotent God MUST be ALL good/All benevolent also, correct?
That is just logical.
If God is that, and if He is God He MUST be that, then He must also be all-just, which means that he can NOT overrule freewill, whether "good" or "bad".
To overrule free will is to be a "dictator God" and God that does NOT allow free expression of Love OR the LACK of love.
Remember, evil is not a thing BUt an ABSENCE of good and God can NOT overrule or prevent an ANY act because that would go against his very nature.
You would like for God to intervene before something bad happens BUT the bad has NOT yet happened so God would be punishing that which COULD have happened.
If that is acceptable to you that means you would be ok with God not only eliminating ALL free will BUT also the death of s people that WOULD have committed evil but have not done anything yet.