Originally posted by tungus
According to your belief the creator is the one who created humanity's sinful and selfish nature. He gave us free will but not wisdom to use it properly -a perfect recipe for disaster, but then again your creator already knew that. By the way we do not have a free will, only the appearance of free will and a thinly veiled one at that.
About the analogy that we are here for a reason and that reason is to learn. I knew a guy once who when asked why he wouldn't go to school, he would smile and say that school is for those who are stupid.
As crude as this seems, if your god created us right in the first place there wouldn't be any reason for this "learning" world of yours.
He didn't create our sinful nature, our free will did that. But don't worry, he did leave us plenty of hints in a book called the "Bible". I also don't think you give humanity enough credit. There are many, many honest and decent people on Earth as proof that even with free will, people can be good.
We're here as spiritual beings experiencing a physical reality. The bad things that happen in the short time we're here are nothing compared to the vast infinite after.






