/lit/ - Literature

>>18591430
Our lepidopteran is as right as usual; convert to Islam instead, my brothers.

God creates Man in His own image. God makes decisions, but since He is perfect, he only makes the right ones. Man has free will and the capacity to make decisions like God. But since the Fall, Man is a sinner. Unlike God, Man is not perfect, and so he chooses evil sometimes.

Further discussion questions:
> [1]. Why didn't God create Man completely in His image, i.e. why isn't Man perfect like Him?
> [2]. How do you explain evil that is not the work of Man of Nature? (Sick babies that die).

My tentative answer to [1] is that, logically, God could not create Man thus. There could be only one perfection (the Creator). See Anselm.

[2] is much harder to answer, I believe. God created the Universe with certain Laws. Usually, He leaves His creation alone, and lets it the Universe unfold according to these Laws and according to Man's Will. He can intervene at anytime--he can cause miracles. Yet, miracles are infrequent. Why they are infrequent, I don't really know. Perhaps, as some above have suggested, it is for Man to strive towards his perfection (in the sciences and applied sciences). Perhaps, God refrains from intervention out of respect for His established Laws.

[2] certainly requires more thought.

>>11733545
Mickey says knowledge is based on the unprovable (as if to discredit it) yet makes a positive claim that passes as knowledge (i.e., X is not a trustworthy evaluator of X, where in this case X = chemicals).

>>11734444
I am expecting an answer along the lines of "because its in our nature." My question, properly understood, is why has nothing arisen that combats and strangles this degenerate side of our nature?