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Originally Posted by MackinawTJ
And I agree with BigMakk, he allowed sin to be created. Why? To "test our faith"? Like we're some sort of lab rats?
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"Without evil, how could a human know what is good or evil?"
That philosophical thought is the one with the weakest ground to stand on because it assumes that humanity would know what is good without evil. Could humanity ever know what one side is without the other? Life and death, good and evil, et cetera.
The one train of philosophical thought that should be used is Sextus Empiricus.
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Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without a judge's approval or has been approved. But if it is without approval, whence comes it that it is truthworthy? For no matter of dispute is to be trusted without judging. And, if it has been approved, that which approves it, in turn, either has been approved or has not been approved, and so on ad infinitum.
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(Paraphrase of his other key theory)
To establish a criterion one must know the theorem that establishes it but to to establish the theorems it must have an established criterion.
Also, I am curious as to where that quote from Epicurus comes from since he was born and had died before the advent of Christianity and was a Greek who probably followed the Greek pantheon of Gods. I think that is an Epicurean philosophical thought not Epicurus.