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Originally Posted by Actor
Why doesn't she hear it? More than likely because, by pure accident of birth, she does not live in a society where it is taught. After all 2/3 of the population of the planet are not Christians. If the girl were born in India she's probably Hindu and has never even heard of the gospel. So she is damned to hell by pure accident. Or did God arrange for her to never hear it? If so then He's a sadist. Or is He helpless in the face of pure accident? If the latter then He's not omnipotent.
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Precisely the inescapable problem of positing evil existing in the universe of God's godlike characteristics - omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, and omnipresence. No matter how Christians spin it, Yahweh is a cruel deity purposely manufacturing untold misery for humans. Either that God and good exists, or evil does. Not both simultaneously.
And boxcar trying to rationalize the contradiction by "Jesus came to the rescue", is a despicable cowardly cop out. Jews and other religions and many philosophers have been trying to solve this problem way before the advent of the Jesus myth
