Why?
Epicurus Paradox
I’m going to present some information that will give you an opportunity to expand your awareness. It will also be an opportunity to question some things that, previously, you might have never thought to question.
This is a quote from someone named Epicurus. Never heard of him but I came across this quote and felt compelled to write about it. The quote is as follows:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Makes you wonder why, doesn’t it?
Well, it made me wonder. I mean, I quit believing in a single, all-knowing, all-powerful god some time ago, but I wonder why anyone, especially in today’s world, would continue to believe in this.
Let me be clear, I am not judging anyone for their beliefs. They are just that, beliefs - things people decide as truth as opposed to actual knowledge.
I say I wonder why people still believe in a god but I know why they do. It’s the oldest story in the realm. One that’s been pushed and supported in blood for countless generations. Same goes for “the book”. Stories of sacrifice, atonement and redemption - all being continuously propagated into the collective consciousness.
Most people, at least the ones that are involved in an Abrahamic Religion, will say that evil exists because of freewill. They will say that god loves us so much that he gave us the ability to choose - to choose him. They will say that a loving god won’t force someone to do something, all while supporting the mass-murder (blood sacrifice) of and after a so-called victory in the name of the lord!
Most, if not all, of the people in Christianity today, do not know their own book. I was one of them. Even though I left modern Christendom 2016 and begun a really deep-dive into the Torah (First 5 books of the bible), I still didn’t know the book. Take this verse for example:
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” Isaiah 45:7.
There it is, plainly stated but “theologians” over centuries have interpreted evil in the above verse to mean calamity, bad times or disaster, usually directed at those whom opposes god. Not once, in my entire religious upbringing did anyone mention the fact that god says very plainly that he creates evil!
Does that sound like something an all-loving god would do?
How does that line up with freewill?
I came across someone on YouTube named Sevan Bomer. His channel is called Innerstanding and he’s done amazing research into all manner of things. In one of his videos, Sevan Bomer Video (go to the 17:28 min mark) he asked a simple question - How many people does god kill in the bible? He put the information into a LLM (AI) and what came out blew me away! It stated that god killed 2.4 million people! WTH?? He also asked how many people did Satan kill in the bible? Guess how many? 10! He killed 10 people and that was at god’s request!! That’s the story of Job, by the way.
I’ll end with this - why are we consumed with this notion of an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving god, when it’s pretty clear this isn’t the case. Look around you. Would an all-loving god allow his children to exist in a world like this?
Good searching/inquiring.