Why did God give us the free will to murder, rape and beat small children to a pulp?

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  Posted by S Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:07am PDT

  Synia, you apparently do not understand what free will means. We are free to desire murder and free to actually carry out that desire. We have free will to murder. And God specifically granted us with that ability (otherwise we wouldn't be able to do it). God didn't grant us the 'free will' to do many other things, such as flying by flapping our arms. So why did God constrain our free will in some areas but allow us to MURDER and RAPE and BEAT OF CHILDREN?

  "He grant us the wisdom to know the good and evil."

  I thought that was the snake, by tricking Adam and Eve into eating the fruit? Are you saying God wanted that to happen?

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  Posted by S Thu Oct 1, 2009 3:13pm PDT

  Synia, this is obviously over your head.

  The argument I am making about Free Will applies to the Devil too. God created it with the capacity, the ability to be evil. God would have had to have created evil first in order to do this. You should ask yourself why God would create murder, rape, and the mean old Devil. (BTW, doesn't the Bible say that God created evil? I'll look up the quote for you if you are interested). Stop making God out to be only good when it is clear that he created EVERYTHING, including murder, rape and child abuse.

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  Posted by __A_YAHOO_USER__ Mon Oct 5, 2009 4:07pm PDT

  I don't think God "created" such evil, that is MAN'S evil nature

  in a sense he did create evil, he did create The Devil did he not?

  but he did give us a brain in order to decipher right from wrong

  but some people's brains are warped and not functioning properly, therefore they commit these acts

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