Originally posted by whodey
So you are saying that even though you don't believe in God you can still be loving hence the whole notion that the absence of God equates evil? But are you not the creation of his hand created to love? In fact, is not love what drives us and motivates us in all that we do? After all, we were created in the image of God who is a God of love. The question ...[text shortened]... y are there times we choose not to love? This is evidecne for the absence of God in our lives.
Love doesn't drive me in everything I do. In fact, love is to vague a word to ever be useful. I can
be loving, in the sense that I want to do well by people I care a lot about and I'm nice, comforting
and supportive to them. What drives me are many different things. Nothing so simple as the
vague word love.
Why are there times we choose not to love? Is it really a choice? Sometimes I hate someone to
my very core. Can I simply choose to love that someone? I think not. I can however choose my
actions. I can choose not to focus my entire being on harming this someone that I hate. That's a
choice, not my emotional state. How I feel about things are what I feel about thing. If there is a
God, that's what God decided for me.
Again, I say that absence of God is not equivalent to evil. Evil is something else entirely, not the
absence of something else.