Uploaded December 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
First of all, telling people that we wouldn't be able to understand the justifications for the world's God-given ills and accept them as moral, no matter what, asks us to suppress our own personal morality that God gave us. Why would God give us a moral code, then tell us to deny it when we see him doing things we find objectionable?
Also, the idea that there are no 'good people' is borderline offensive. No one can be held to the standard of perfection. It simply isn't fair. If God is truly omniscient, there is no escaping the fact that God created everyone knowing who would go to Heaven and who would go to Hell.
And even if we are all sinners - that is to say, more evil than good - eternity in pain is in no way a justifiable punishment. There is nothing any mortal human being can do to deserve ever-lasting torture and pain. Its impossible to justify morally.
On the other hand, the system in place for the rewarding of good deeds, namely 'Heaven', is laughable. Until the existence of a supernatural realm of eternal bliss is is proven, saying that people will be rewarded after they die appears to be little more than a cheap trick, designed to placate you throughout your entire life, and only when it is too late is the truth apparent.
Moving on, Matt Slick's claims about the random, choatic nature of sin, which apparently exists as a supernatural force that arbitrarily attacks some people and leaves others alone, betrays the very point of a just God, and his further statements on what is 'good' sound like nothing more than lazy posturing designed to let him move on from the criticisms without actually responding to them.
Rabbi Aron Moss's condescending assertions on how people behave when faced with mysterious evils with which a just God cannot be reconciled are refuted simply by the existence of moral non-believers. If he somehow has a problem with the existence of non-believers (going back to views extolled by users such as Other4815), then thats a different argument all together.
On top of that, the idea that God creates people with the sole purpose of testing them is brought into question by the fact that surely an omniscient God would know who is destined to be good and who is not, at which point God is intentionally creating people knowing that some of them will burn forever, which does not sound like the actions of a just God.
Lastly, the belief that 'God is always good' is indicative of a mindset that cannot be reasoned with. At this point, the onus is not on anyone to disprove this claim, but on the person asserting it to prove it.
= Links to mentioned sites =
"Why do bad things happen..." on GotQuestions.org
tinyurl.com/ckhn24
"Why do good things happen..." on GotQuestions.org
tinyurl.com/29pk8ha
"Why do bad things happen..." by Matt Slick
tinyurl.com/2c46l77
"Why do bad things happen..." on Chabad.org
tinyurl.com/5mj8pb
"Why do bad things happen..." by Matt Slick
tinyurl.com/2c46l77
"Why do bad things happen..." by Yusef Estes
tinyurl.com/2a6qupo
"FAQs about Islam"
tinyurl.com/6nu89
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First of all, telling people that we wouldn't be able to understand the justifications for the world's God-given ills and accept them as moral, no matter what, asks us to suppress our own personal morality that God gave us. Why would God give us a moral code, then tell us to deny it when we see him doing things we find objectionable?
Also, the idea that there are no 'good people' is borderline offensive. No one can be held to the standard of perfection. It simply isn't fair. If God is truly omniscient, there is no escaping the fact that God created everyone knowing who would go to Heaven and who would go to Hell.
And even if we are all sinners - that is to say, more evil than good - eternity in pain is in no way a justifiable punishment. There is nothing any mortal human being can do to deserve ever-lasting torture and pain. Its impossible to justify morally.
On the other hand, the system in place for the rewarding of good deeds, namely 'Heaven', is laughable. Until the existence of a supernatural realm of eternal bliss is is proven, saying that people will be rewarded after they die appears to be little more than a cheap trick, designed to placate you throughout your entire life, and only when it is too late is the truth apparent.
Moving on, Matt Slick's claims about the random, choatic nature of sin, which apparently exists as a supernatural force that arbitrarily attacks some people and leaves others alone, betrays the very point of a just God, and his further statements on what is 'good' sound like nothing more than lazy posturing designed to let him move on from the criticisms without actually responding to them.
Rabbi Aron Moss's condescending assertions on how people behave when faced with mysterious evils with which a just God cannot be reconciled are refuted simply by the existence of moral non-believers. If he somehow has a problem with the existence of non-believers (going back to views extolled by users such as Other4815), then thats a different argument all together.
On top of that, the idea that God creates people with the sole purpose of testing them is brought into question by the fact that surely an omniscient God would know who is destined to be good and who is not, at which point God is intentionally creating people knowing that some of them will burn forever, which does not sound like the actions of a just God.
Lastly, the belief that 'God is always good' is indicative of a mindset that cannot be reasoned with. At this point, the onus is not on anyone to disprove this claim, but on the person asserting it to prove it.
= Links to mentioned sites =
"Why do bad things happen..." on GotQuestions.org
tinyurl.com/ckhn24
"Why do good things happen..." on GotQuestions.org
tinyurl.com/29pk8ha
"Why do bad things happen..." by Matt Slick
tinyurl.com/2c46l77
"Why do bad things happen..." on Chabad.org
tinyurl.com/5mj8pb
"Why do bad things happen..." by Matt Slick
tinyurl.com/2c46l77
"Why do bad things happen..." by Yusef Estes
tinyurl.com/2a6qupo
"FAQs about Islam"
tinyurl.com/6nu89
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While you're here, please subscribe to by back-up channel just in case Amazon drops me.
youtube.com/latumstreet
Also follow me on Twitter
twitter.com/#!/LatumWay
