{"id":6869,"date":"2010-07-20T03:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2010-07-20T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T03:54:08","slug":"is-free-will-good-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/is-free-will-good-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Free Will Good or Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6870\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/136.jpg?resize=81%2C122\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/136.jpg?w=81&amp;ssl=1 81w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/136.jpg?resize=64%2C96&amp;ssl=1 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A God-believing guest speaker mentioned something interesting but illogical at a Buddhism and Science seminar. He said that because there is free will, the problem of good and evil arose. So does that make free will good, evil or neutral? For creator God-believers of original sin, it is clear that free will cannot be good or neutral on the whole, as all are by now sinners. Does that not make the giver of free will evil? And if so, how can this creator be good? The simplest way to answer this is that <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">there is simply no good creator who gave free will to anyone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is one simple reason why many (including Buddhists) don&#8217;t believe there is an almighty and all-good creator God. (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Such a being cannot be almighty since he can&#8217;t even prevent or contain one single original sin.<\/span> Does this not make him the most original sinner?) He also said he&#8217;s not sure why he&#8217;s invited to the event. I&#8217;m not sure too, because he even spoke of evolution over millions of years, which is in essence anti-creationism&#8230; along with other mish-mash ideas not really about Buddhism. He left the event early &#8211; but should had stayed on&#8230; to learn more about Buddhism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A God-believing guest speaker mentioned something interesting but illogical at a Buddhism and Science seminar. He said that because there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,244,515],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-evil","tag-god","tag-good","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}