zaangalewa
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There's an answer. All things work for good. We can't always see how because we don't have perfect knowledge, He does.Zzzz..Atheism is also only a belief, if god might exist.
One more time.. Atheism is lack of belief.. doesn't logically rule out gods possibly existing.. nor life on Pluto.. anything.. not a belief other than perhaps that one's profound lack of shareable evidence yields nothing to crow about.. nor exclude people.. discriminate against them.. claim special privileges.. take tax breaks.. etc.. etc..
I did not ask you, atheist. I asked sealybobo, because he calls himselve an agnostics. I like to know what he says. In your case I know that you believe not to believe. This paradox is typical for atheists.
In the Christian religion exist by the way also some paradoxes - but we name them and speak about this paradoxes. We are using paradoxes somehow like candles. A famous Christian paradox is for example the theodicy, which is falsly adressed to the philosopher Epicurus.
“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?”
Epicurus
Epicurus was not a monotheist, so he was not able to ask this. As far as I know it was the Christian philosoper Lacantius, who formulated this very famous paradox in the name of Epicurus, which is continously used from atheists against Christians. Still we did not find an answer. But we have time - a whole universe full of time. Sometimes it needs a little longer to find a good answer.
That's not an answer - that's an absurdity. If you say to someone "Be happy - your child died because all things work for good" then you will appear in heaven with your head in the hands and will have to explain god why you made someone so angry, that he murdered you.