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#92 Why are people evil? Could God be evil?

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Are We Just Lucky That God Is Good and Loving?

Question one: If god is uncreated, then couldn't his natural being have just as easily been evil? Question two: Why do we assume that god is automatically good and loving a what's your take on this particular philosophical sort of question? I've had different answers to it. It is a very deep philosophical question. And the idea of an evil god, which is a very scary idea, would imply that an evil god would not make a world full of beauty and joy and love and laughter and so on. Indeed, lying is itself. In the new testament, the satan, the the the dark force, who is only quasi personal, is a liar and the father of lies

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