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>I don't think you've ever had a good-faith conversation with a theist so you really don't have any grounds upon which to say that you know what or how they think.
Most of the world is theists, you fucking retard. Everyone knows what Catholics believe, or Methodists, or all the other major denominations. You’re the one spouting your stupid, hippy dippy heresy pretending it’s somehow in-line with Christian theology. Nobody cares about your stupid, individual opinions. This is a debate on Abrahamic theology, of which you are way off.

>Incidentally, your post contradicts your own stance.
It doesn’t. You are just retarded.
>Look at the Fall of Man story: God says "do NOT eat the apple" and what happens? Eve eats it. The indication is that God gave Eve both an instruction and the ability to act in opposition to that instruction, and he was left disappointed by her failure to listen. He was upset for a few thousands years, but eventually relaxed and removed the punishment he gave her for not listening.
What does this have to do with god designing sharks to have giant, razor-sharp teeth intended to rip seals apart in the most violent and painful way imaginable? Nature is just as violent and evil as humanity despite no shark ever “Eating Duh Apple.” The Bible gets around this by saying predators and prey will lie together or some shit, which is frankly just dumb and doesn’t explain why sharks will have razor teeth that they’re ideally not supposed to use.

>He had the POWER to force her compliance, but chose not to enact it. This does not contradict omnipotence, but does directly show that He was not micromanaging the situation to enforce absolute dictatorship over all actions.

>I knit you in your mother’s womb.
>I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The traditional Christian perspective is that god controls all things, actively. He creates evil (Isiaiah). You are simply wrong.