Because by doing good you must be consciously rejecting evil. Without the ability to do evil you cannot be good. You would merely be acting.

Do you really have the ability to do evil if you never commit evil sometimes?

Can God create evil?

If not he is not all powerful.

It is outside of his nature to do it. He would not do evil because he is all good.

Is God also conscious of evil?

Yes, and in he works around man's evil in order to do good.

So God would never directly command man to do evil

Are you going to bring up Abraham and Isaac?

I was going to bring up Job

Ah, Job.

Killing his family members in order to prove his loyalty to him

It was actually Satan who did that

How would a loving God subject his child to such suffering

If God is all-powerful, and also loving, how can he allow evil to exist

Why not crush it instantly

You've asked this question numerous times and it's been answered numerous times.

There's no need to go around in circles with it.

I've asked it twice and you've avoided the first time

I misunderstood this idea of free will. Thanks for clarifying.

hi chopin

If God crushed evil he would be absolving man of the responsibility for his own actions. Which would be unjust.

Hi

Free will defined as holding consciousness and potentiality of evil but not acting on it, is interesting.

Hmm, this argument isn't convincing in the slightest

@Mros is this idea also Catholic doctrine?

*"It was actually Satan who did that"* So it wasn't entirely man's responsibility

Not sure, I'm still new to it

@Deleted User If I understand it correctly, in theory, man has free will to reject evil created by satan. I am assuming they also need God's help of goodness to do it because of original sin.

Nothing stopping you from reading into theology.

Aquinas is good

I am still no closer to the existence of God. The cosmological argument is not very good.

Ok that's fine.

But why not even look to see if there's anything there?

Unless you've already read theology in which case, disregard what I said.

I acknowledge the internal consistency now though.

Well, i just had trouble make the rational leap into faith. Seems reckless.

That's a very reasonable belief

Soren Kierkegaard wrote about the relationship between faith and reason in Fear and Trembling.

I can't say too much about it, because I haven't read it yet. But It's coming this saturday.

I think I can look into Thomas and Soren again. It has been several years. I am very busy with materials unfortuately.