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The problem of evil (thoughts 1?)

Aug 12th, 2021 (edited)
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  1. What was the real name of that heresy I found one day on christianforums.com? I call it "Ring Theory".
  2. I predicted that it would blow up in popularity but I was wrong? Apparently.
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  4. Anyway, I realized it was a heresy because God is not the centre of it.
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  6. A dot in the centre of a circle is not in the centre but it is in the centre of the one-dimensional edge (circumference) of the circle.
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  9. What follows is not the heresy I mentioned above, but rather is some bewildering theologically shaky concoction of my own.
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  13. I think, that God is equidistant (distance of 0 or something) from every point in space-time so He is in the centre of all reality, no matter where you are in reality.
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  15. (Even more sketchy): Evil is not a thing in and of itself but it is a literal vacuum containing no good. (evil cannot create anything, it can only corrupt or destroy what already exists). (God can create and destroy.)
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  17. Sin is the rejection of God's will. Evil=Sin; God's will and God Himself are one in the same? Evil is the rejection of good. God=good.
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  19. Sin separates us from God because when we sin we are literally rejecting him, literally excluding (or trying to) Him from our position in space-time and the spiritual realm.
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  21. But wait, we can't push God around? He is much too powerful for that. Exactly. It's not true that God is powerless to overcome sin and evil, it is true however, that God gives us free will by choosing to ALLOW us to push Him away when we choose to push Him away.
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  23. God is always omnipotent and omnipresent, He is still present in those places where He has been excluded, it is merely as if He has taken a step back (to get out of our way from between us and our destruction) or something.
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  25. God can still see every point in space-time and the spiritual realm(s?), but sometimes He chooses not to interfere with the events in some parts of space-time (the parts that have evil/sin in them).
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  27. It is not that He is incapable of stopping sin/evil, or even that He never does stop it, it is so that He chooses sometimes not to stop the progression of sin/evil.
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