1.) Yes.....and God could have made us exist and not exist at the same time. Make up your mind. Either free will comes with all its baggage or it's not free will in the first place.
What does existence have to do with this? You assume having free will comes with baggage. I can have the free will to decide between doing good and doing good.
2.) Uh? Okay.....well, people lie. Is that not a sin to you? It is also very easy to imagine how natural disasters come into effect because it depends on the planetary conditions. And what about bacteria? Are you saying you are unaware that there is useful bacteria in your own gut?
I don't what this sin is. Lying is an immoral act, but it hardly shows that it is a sin. Lying could be a good thing. There is, but there is also bad bacteria. Did harmful bacteria not exist until we ate from the tree? Again, you're playing mental gymnastics here.
3.) And this highlights where your problem originates from: you are judging things by your own perspective alone and expect everything else to line up with it. Death may be good to you, but it is evil to God, and it seems that he doesn't take your opinion into consideration for that. Your enemies are also not evil because you are not a wholly good person, but if God were indeed perfectly good, then all his enemies would be by definition evil.
Oh so you know Gods perspective? Hmm, I don't see how that all his enemies would be evil. And what a false dilemma you have made here, my enemies are not evil because I'm not wholly good? So the leader of ISIS is not evil because I'm not wholly good? That is by far the most absurd thing I have ever heard.
4.) You do have something to compare it, the creator itself. The "good" value comes from something's likeness to the originator. So things that are not like the creator would be the opposite.
You put yourself in circle here; How do I know value X is good? Your answer; compare it to Y. How do I know Y is good? Compare it to Y.
5.) Um no, because if there is nothing else aside from "you", then there is nothing external to you. When the creator creates something, it derives directly from the creator and is judged after-the-fact. The cannot be any a priori judgement because there was simply nothing prior to it.
Ok so he creates something and calls it good, how do we know that this goodness is what we know as good? And the evil we perceive is actually evil? This creator would have to be determined to be good externally or this creator creates this thing as good because he sees value of goodness in of itself. Still it shows that goodness is external to the creator.
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