Please see the irony in using circular logic after I stated that the religious use circular logic (well it seems like that's what you're doing, because you aren't providing your reasoning, you are just stating it as fact)
By what logic are you determining that an atheist cannot define evil?
Because it seems like your logic is "An atheist cannot define evil because I say they can't based on my personal rationalization"
I'm sorry, logic doesn't work like that
I assume, the same things that are considered "evil" by Christians?
Are you saying torturing someone for eternity isn't "evil"
Are you saying "evil" is only "evil" if a human does it, but when it comes to God he can commit acts that are considered "evil" but they "don't count" because he's God?
An atheist is just someone who doesn't believe in the existence of God, nothing more, nothing less, don't try to create a strawman by adding on your personal definition bits to it lol
I can tell you are just being willfully ignorant
Please refer to the part of the Epicurean Paradox that asks - "Could God have created a universe with free-will but without evil?"
If your answer is no, then God is
NOT ALL POWERFUL
If your answer is yes then it begs the question "then why didn't he"
If your next answer is "to test us" then God is
NOT ALL KNOWING (because if you know literally everything, then you know the results of all tests to begin with)
If you look at the bible honestly there's no such thing as morality, morality is merely whatever God chooses to give himself a pass to do
In the bible God has literally killed more humans than the devil
The common response of Christians is - "Well he's God so he can rape, torture and murder as many humans as he wants and we still have to call him "good" because he decides what "good" is"
You have to be a dishonest piece of shit, skilled in self deception, to actually follow that logic, and argue that God can murder as much as he wants, do whatever the hell he wants, even things he forbids us to do, and still be "moral" or "good"
Do you consider yourself a moral person while browsing a forum where the death and harm of everyday men and women is celebrated?
Do you consider yourself a moral person with these kinds of posts:
You sound like a future rapist, very moral indeed, you definitely aren't "preaching" right now under the "guise of self-righteousness"
1. The argument isn't that he should defeat all evil since he's all knowing, stop pretending to be a simpleton (or maybe you are that stupid)
The argument is composed of the 3 main characteristics many Christians tout about God (Loving, All Knowing, All Powerful)
So by those characteristics:
If God knows about all evil, and he has the power to defeat all evil, and he is a loving God, then by simple logic he would destroy all evil
Him just knowing about it, isn't the point, whats being brought into question, is the contradiction (the paradox) that appears when you put all of these three traits together
If you say that God is ALL POWERFUL and ALL KNOWING, but isn't LOVING (so he doesn't really give a fuck) -
THAT MAKES SENSE
If you say that God is ALL POWERFUL and LOVING, but isn't ALL KNOWING (so some evil escapes him) -
THAT MAKES SENSE
If you say that God is ALL KNOWING and LOVING, but isn't ALL POWERFUL (so he can't stop all evil) -
THAT MAKES SENSE
BUT, then that begs the question, why even worship such a being as "God"?
If you instead say that God is ALL KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL and LOVING -
THERE IS A CONTRADICTION
2. Sin only "causes destruction" because those were the rules that God set into place, do you guys not find it weird when you speak of the nature of the universe
INDEPENDENT OF GOD, as if he has no control or power over it, as if its "outside of his control" and he's "not to blame". You just sound dishonest, you can't have it both ways.
"If sin didn't exist you wouldn't have free will" -
NO, that's because God decided to create the universe like that, an all powerful God can create a universe with both free will and no sin
God created the very concept of sin to begin with
Here's an example, why as a God would you make the sole means of reproduction for a species be considered "sinful", and the yearning to carry the act out (
THE YEARNING YOU CREATED - "LUST") also be considered "sinful"
There was no reason to do that, God could have created a universe where "fornication" isn't a sin
"For a human to say what is "legal", who defines what is "legal" to a human?"
When you answer this obvious and ridiculous question, you'll have the obvious answer to your question
I really have to think of you as just a dishonest person, because I can't imagine someone being this simple minded, you must just be pretending to not understand what is obvious
That's the part these guys don't want to admit to
I'm actually agnostic, I believe God may exist, but if he does were all fucked because he's definitely a mad tyrant, only a crazy guy would ask someone to sacrifice their son to them on an alter to "prove their faith", and to make it next level crazy GOD IS ALL KNOWING, so he already knew that the guy would have went through with the sacrifice so THERE WAS NO REAL "TEST"
These dishonest fools don't want to admit to all the gaping holes that open up in their religion when you actually accept the traits bestowed upon God (ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING, LOVING)