>>2614535>why would God allow such a thing?God respects the free will of all living organisms, and so this would involve a wide variety of choices that line up with what he wants and what he doesn't like.
>if he dislikes sin and evil so, then it doesn't make sense as to how he allowed such a thing to exist.It exists for a reason, and again free will does play a part. If God limited the choices one could make, then is it truly free will?
>he sentences anyone who is even a toe out of line to an eternity of torturemaybe in your opinion, but in Catholicism at least, there is Hell where all the irredeemable baddies go to, then there is the Purgatory where many people go to await judgment for theirs sins and good works, then there is Heaven where all the genuinely good people go.
>he clearly has the ability to create mankind flawless and of knowledge, yet he doesn'tShould he? Man was flawless due to his purity and knowledge of good. God explicitly told Adam and Eve to not eat the fruits of the tree of knowledge (of evil). Since we are nowhere near at the level God is, we can easily fall into temptation if conditions are right.
I'm not trying to handwave your arguments, you do bring up some good points. Please try to understand that God is a being like you and I and also has his own free will and can act as such.
>>2615418Maybe he doesn't want to act irrationally and interfere unnecessarily. God is supposed to be a father figure, not a mother figure. If you don't know what that entails then i apologize for you missing out on such a key component of your life.
