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Frank Turek
Frank Turek
“If evil exist, than good must exist and if good exist than God must exist . By definition good is the nature of God.”
Good has to be tethered to something. It can’t be whatever we want it to be because the world we live in shows that goodness is objective not subjective.
“Evil is a privation (the loss or absence of a quality or attribute that is normally present.) or lack in good.”
“Evil is like rust in a car. If you take all the rust out of the car you still have a car, but if you take all the car out of the rust you have nothing.”
“Evil only exist as a parasite in good.”
Romans 12:9 (NET)
Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.
“Evil doesn’t disprove God. Evil may prove there’s a devil out there but it doesn’t disprove God.”
“Ok if there is a good God why would He allow these evil things to occur?”
This question is different from the statement:
The existence of evil disproves the existence of God!
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Injustice can’t exist unless justice exist and justice can’t exist unless God exist.”
“If an atheist wants to claim that justice and injustice exist they really can’t because on there framework its just and illusion.”
“If you say that atheism is just a lack of belief in God. This is a statement about your psychological state.”
“But this would not be a statement about the real world because if that was the case then a book could be an atheist.”
“I don’t see atheist just saying I lack a belief in God. They are also saying here’s how I explain the universe: multiple universes, evolution, quantum vacuums, materialism.”
These are positive beliefs that need to be defended.