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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
Mark Twain in his last work let his central character argue, IMO, Twain's argument against Christianity, God, and Hell. How would you answer him from this crucial passage:
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Matt 25.41 says that hell, really the lake of fire, was uniquely prepared for the devil and his angels. No man should go there because, since the transgression of Adam and Eve, God has prepared a Savior, His own Son, to pay the price of any and all sins committed by their descendants. Man's only requirement was to believe.
Twain's comments take on a variation of the POE, which we had discussed on this forum for several years. The POE, the Problem of Evil, is a philosophical argument designed to prove that God cannot exist. The basic argument is this:
Since God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, evil by definition cannot exist. The logic is flawed since God has created, not "good happy robot children," but all creation with a free will, including mankind, the angelic race, etc.