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Stop pretending you are seeking truth and understanding here. Most of your posts are unnecessarily combative and when you get a good response; instead of taking it in, you just jump to your next attack argument. That might make you feel like you have won an argument but don't fool yourself into thinking you are really seeking truth and understanding.

Stop pretending to know the entire truth. You are here spreading your belief like its fact and never changing and we must believe or else. Hell, just recently the pope declared the big bang and evolution as real. So to say that the guys several thousand years ago got it completely right and that the Bible is absolute truth is disingenuous. I'm not here to argue that there is no God. I'm here to express my opinion that I don't think what we think we know is correct.

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The existence of suffering and evil is an argument for the existence of God. You can virtue signal with this point of yours and pretend the issue of suffering and evil isn't a complex issue. But it is. The reality is sometimes suffering is a good thing and a necessary thing to create change. Making an emotional appeal argument like you are doing is just putting feelings ahead of reason.

My main point about evil and suffering is that an all powerful all loving God has the absolute capability to create a world without it and put us there first instead. Why the need to enable suffering and evil if it causes pain?
He has the ability do that yet he chooses to let us suffer? Why? Is it to make us a better stronger person? To build our faith in him? If all powerful why have any of that in the first place? Why not just create us full of faith and painless? Why the rule that we must have the bad to get the good?

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Perhaps if you weren't unnecessarily combative, you might elicit a kinder response in return.

I havent attacked anyone. I have been called names and talked down to by "Christians " in this thread though. So excuse my tone as I ask my questions. But most responses have been based on the assumption that the Bible is God's word. What if its not? I applaud your faith. I was there once as well but there are just too many unanswerable questions to blindly follow a religion based upon an actient book written and composed by men. And if you haven't looked around, men are capable of very evil things for power, control and wealth.