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Samsa said:What?
My point is that the Judeo-Christian God - one that is *omniscient* - would have known such things, yet proceeded with Creation anyhow.
I guess I don't understand what you're getting at.
Most people of Faith have an idea of a great plan by God for our Salvation. The idea does not make us robots for the side of good or evil. Evil is usually a deliberate choice but can be done under deception as in a False Flags scenario, however we can only judge people by what they do not the content of their heart. Judging by the content of the heart is for the Divine.
One thing that comes up when bad things happen to people, from car accidents to hurricanes and tsunamis is people will look at this and say it is a judgement from God and a punishment. BUT, this then begs the question, who here on earth is not a sinner and does not deserve the same judgement?
In the end all of these things should serve to say, look to your own soul and use this oppourtunity to help others. As to natural disaster, the whole of Creation groans under the Fall and things are not what they should be. As to the Holocost, all pomgroms, killing fields and ethnic cleansings, those are the works of man, not God. As our science and Technology has increased our ability to inflict death and destruction has increased so that in the last 100 to 200 years MAN has killed in levels unprecidented in history, and only the plagues or the Spanish Flu of 1917 come close to our mark.