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# Since all human will and action is predetermined by the Creator, all their actions are inevitable and not in their control, leading to the absence of any moral responsibility in humans, and thus making the idea of good and evil meaningless. | # Since all human will and action is predetermined by the Creator, all their actions are inevitable and not in their control, leading to the absence of any moral responsibility in humans, and thus making the idea of good and evil meaningless. | ||
# If despite that, we decide to assign moral responsibility for their actions, it would directly imply that the Creator is just as morally responsible for causing all human actions, including the evil ones, by predetermining them, which then would make him the root of all evil, contradicting the image of a good-willing God pictured in most known religions (Russell, 2020, under “6. Free Will and the Problem of Religion”). | # If despite that, we decide to assign moral responsibility for their actions, it would directly imply that the Creator is just as morally responsible for causing all human actions, including the evil ones, by predetermining them, which then would make him the root of all evil, contradicting the image of a good-willing God pictured in most known religions (Russell, 2020, under “6. Free Will and the Problem of Religion”)<ref name=":1" />. | ||
To reach a conclusion about whether the Creator could be blamed for the evil in the world he created it is important to consider that if God was just omniscient and not omnipotent, and if there was theoretically no way to create humankind while also not creating evil, the answer of guilt lies in whether creating humans, allowing the evil to exist, or to refrain from creating humans and evil altogether is the most ethical choice. | To reach a conclusion about whether the Creator could be blamed for the evil in the world he created it is important to consider that if God was just omniscient and not omnipotent, and if there was theoretically no way to create humankind while also not creating evil, the answer of guilt lies in whether creating humans, allowing the evil to exist, or to refrain from creating humans and evil altogether is the most ethical choice. | ||