[quote]Originally posted by Believer:\n[b]....\"Evil flourishes when good people do nothingâ€. If the majority of the world can see this and make a famous saying of it then I\'m sure you can too.[/b]\n\nI am not arguing against that.\n\n[b] .. as for God, yes he is all powerful, and can stop the evil that men do, but if he did then our free will would not be so free. [/b]\n\nSo we have evil flourishing when God does nothing. And God is not a mere mortal - he is all-powerful.\n\nIf I were to see a child being abducted, a woman being raped or a man being murdered, I hope that I would do something about it. \n\nHowever, if I did not, could I use the argument that I was allowing both the criminals and their victims the opportunity to use free will, in accordance with God\'s wishes?\n[/quote]
