Things like this make me wonder if there really is a God, or if we’re simply animals, no different than hyenas or fish, or insects - we’ve just been lucky in the overall scheme of things on the evolutional ladder (and evolution does not discount the existence of God in my view, for what it is worth). On the other hand, if there is a God, a loving, merciful God, perhaps he sends these souls back to earth as innocents, to atone for past sins in the quickest way, and places them at the mercy of sinners to give the sinners themselves a chance to atone for current sins. Just waxing philosophical here. Not interested in getting flamed by fanatics of any stripe, but if you’ve got some genuine and serious thoughts to share, I would welcome them.
There is a God, the Creator of men and animals.
We have the freedom to choose whether to do good or evil. Animals do not. Nor are animals capable of the intentional evil that men do.
When I look at the world, it looks like just some big random mess. If there is a divine “holy” plan and the final action of every human is truly final...it makes absolutely no sense to me.
The existence of evil itself is not an issue if God plans to restore the world and reward the “overcomers”. The problem is the foolish ones who went down the wrong path. If this was their fate then why did these ‘spiritually stupid’ ones get conceived in the first place?
These two monsters were innocent children at one point. They were just like this murdered 3 year old. Then they became what they are now. It doesn’t matter if this was “free will”. Why were they allowed to live long enough to exercise the ultimate horror of this “free will”? God can reward the holy victims of evil but what about the ones who succumbed to the ‘world’? What did ANYBODY gain from their damnation? They deserve it now but the person they were in the past probably did not. Nobody wins when a soul goes to hell, except maybe the demons who feeling like tormenting somebody.
Even if all the murdered innocents were resurrected into glory it still would not be a total victory for God. He will still have lost millions if not billions.
Unless....unless string theory is true and time branches off into separate universes. That way the “old self” can still be resurrected while the monstrous “new self” is rightfully judged. Now my head hurts...