Phat writes:
So one day, a woman you obviously knew well has a son. The boy grows up. One day he robs a bank and shoots a guard. Are you responsible for his evil?
The woman did not "create" the evil.
Phat writes:
More to your point...
More than totally unrelated?
Phat writes:
... if God created a fully free-willed Lucifer...
He didn't. Lucifer is a figment of your imagination. You might as well try to use Darth Vader to back up your "point".
Phat writes:
... who chose to rebel and become Satan, why in Heaven is God responsible?
There's a difference between a HUMAN woman bearing a HUMAN son and an omnipotent God CREATING evil. Why in Heaven can you not understand that? The woman had no control over the son. God DOES (supposedly) have control.
Phat writes:
If I were capable of creating a free-willed Being who made a wrong choice, why am I responsible?
Duh! If you HAVE the power to stop evil and you CHOOSE not to stop evil, that IS responsibility. That's what responsibility MEANS.
Why do you keep wasting our time with this nonsense when it has been explained to you umpteen times?
Come all of you cowboys all over this land,
I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command:
To hold a six shooter, and never to run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.
-- Woody Guthrie
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