| Intent not effecting guilt and its implications as to the existence of a purely benevolent God A recent topic of concern to me has been the ill-conceived Christian notion that a Creator is not to blame for the evil committed by its subjects. Of course one must initially assume �evil� is actually a property that can be attributed to objects outside of society (A belief I oppose strongly). But lets accept rape and murder as �evil� because to nearly all civilizations, it is considered so. Now I do not claim that the subject who commits evil is not to blame, but that its Creator is also somewhat to blame. Omniscience allows this God to know all, (which has paradoxical implications, which I will not discuss), and therefore when this God creates a human, it knows everything it will do. It is commonly said that Free Will is given to the subjects. And that does give responsibility to the subject. However, because God created the human with full knowledge of the choices it would make (once again, assuming environment plays a larger role than heredity, as a purely hereditary argument would implicate God�s full responsibility), God must be somewhat to blame for the evil committed. The common reply is that God does not want his subjects to do evil, and that it is free will that allows evil to occur. However it was God�s free will that created the monster in the first place. Of course none of this phases the die-hard Christian, and yet it seems so obvious to even an agnostic. And so I present an argument I�ve never heard before, and so I will call it my own: God creates a subject that will commit evil (the fact is not that the subject chooses to commit evil, but that the Creator knows it will choose so and still creates it), and then lets have another god, we�ll call it� Bob. Bob has all the powers of God; except instead of being supposedly benevolent, Bob is rather twisted and wishes for his subjects to do evil. In our universe, God creates a human that rapes and murders. In Bob�s rival universe, a human is created that rapes and murders. Now does this intent effect the guilt of Bob even though Bob has done nothing different than God? Well I�ll tell you this much: In Christianity, this Bob figure has many names, one of which is Satan. |