Comments on: More controversy http://robinbrande.com/religion/more-controversy For writers, readers, and independent thinkers--book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers' motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:21:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Barry http://robinbrande.com/religion/more-controversy#comment-6 Barry Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:56:02 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/uncategorized/more-controversy#comment-6 Hmm. Interesting question. One could make an argument that beings such as a theoretical anti-Christ are outside the purview of such things as free will, but then that sort of makes their evil less...evil, doesn't it? This is sort of one of the disturbing contradictions in Christian theology: God is supposed to be in charge of everything, which means that He's in charge of Satan and the anti-Christ, too. But in that case why even have these guys around? How evil are they if they're just doing what they were created/commanded to do? And then, of course, you get into the whole "do not question the mind of God" and "if there was no evil, you wouldn't know what good was," neither of which were ever very compelling arguments to me. Hmm. Interesting question. One could make an argument that beings such as a theoretical anti-Christ are outside the purview of such things as free will, but then that sort of makes their evil less…evil, doesn’t it?

This is sort of one of the disturbing contradictions in Christian theology: God is supposed to be in charge of everything, which means that He’s in charge of Satan and the anti-Christ, too. But in that case why even have these guys around? How evil are they if they’re just doing what they were created/commanded to do?

And then, of course, you get into the whole “do not question the mind of God” and “if there was no evil, you wouldn’t know what good was,” neither of which were ever very compelling arguments to me.

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