The suffering of mankind [in this life or the afterlife] is not the fault of God.

I like the fact that my opponant is kind and respectful. His politness will be returned throughout this debate. NOW LET IT CONTINUE! Just so you know, you were right on the money with the "God of classical theology" thing. Thats pretty much what I believe. In fact if I'm not mistaken [which I doubt] thats pretty much the same thing the average Christian, or Jewish guy would think of God too. So it baffles me as to how its possible for these two religious sects to hate Islam so bad. We worship the same being, we simply worship him in different ways. Wy other people can't understand that is something I will never be able to comprehend. "Now, if God created the Earth, then God is directly responsible when it goes wrong." Hmmmmmm. I fear I'm not content with your chioce of words my friend. A wise man once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." That wise man was Solomon, so if he said it its more then likely to be true. When you used the word "wrong" in this sentence, it seemed as if you were implying that things like earthquakes, tsunamis, and rockslides arent suppose to happen, or shouldn't happen. Occurances like these arent new and they definatly arent wrong. God made mother earth like a person. People grow, change, and adapt differently. So does our planet. Earthquakes, mudslides, tornados, and snowblizzards have been happening for MILLIONS of years, and the creatures of the earth, weather human or otherwise, have been dealing with it for millions of years and will for millions more [assuming the earth is still around then]. I mean come on, its not Gods fault that hurricane Katrina happened. Yes; thousands of people were displaced, yes; thousands more were killed during the hurricane, but God isn't to blame. Like I said earlier, natural diesasters have been happening forever on this little blue planet. It isn't Gods fault that New Orleans just happened to be surrounded by water when the hurricane attacked. Nor would it be Gods fault if a tornado tore through Ney York city. I mean honestly, is it his fault that a city just happen to be right in the middle of the tornados attack radius. No it isn't. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that we humans should relocate ourselves, nor am I implying that we should ceses to exist so we could end the problems altogether, cause we gotta live too right? The point I'm trying to get across is that these things have been happening forever, and will forever more. We as people need to be glad that we have a earth to live in, and just roll with the punches when things get nasty. And judging from the earths current situation with global warming, I'm predicting that things are gonna get even nastier, but thats just our planets way of balancing itself out after all the crap weve put it through. If you melt the ice caps then the water has gotta end up somewhere, and we on the east cost of America have been reciving more rain, floods, and thunderstorms, in this one summer then we have all of last year put together. But I'm guessing thats Gods fault too right? "Secondly, God created Man. If God gives a being free will, God is responsible for the consequences of that decision." True! God did give man free will, but he also gave us a perfect and undeniable way of becoming good people, and a means of joining him in the after life. Its a guideline of sorts for one to become a blessed indivisual. If you haven't guessed it yet, it called the "Ten Commandments." Brought to us through the profit Moses, and still followed to this day. If you choose not to follow the rules it lays down for all of mankind it isn't his fault. I mean sure he gave us free will, but he also told us what to do with it. For example: Your parents buy you a brandnew 2008 mustang for your birthday. You can do what you want with it because its your car, but before you drive your parents set down some ground rules. "Respect the traffic laws, don't ride around on an empty tank, get an oil change when nesacery, don't speed, don't overpump the tires on your car, ect." Though they did get you the Mustang, its yours, so though you should listen to what they say, you sure enough don't have to. In a year your car is a chopshop reject because you didn't listen to what they told you. Now its a piece of crap and the first ones you blame it them. Yeah they did buy it for you, but they couldn't tell you what to do with it because its your proporty. The same thing goes for God and his act of granting us free will. Sure he did grant ya free will, but he told ya what to do with it. If you or someone else suffers because you refuse to listen to his laws, its not his fault. We aren't 5 year olds with handguns, we are intellegant, capable, and reasonable human beings. We are the highest of all of Gods creations, [besides the angles] so when we screw up we can't blame it on him. The average human is smart enough to figure things out on his/her own. "there are a hundred who are thrown into situations an honest soul cannot possibly compete with, who have to become cruel and cold and brutal to survive" YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!!! There are indeed millions of people thrown into siches that a light hearted person couldn't possible survive. Thats the funny thing about God, because you see, some people simply werent ment to survive these occurances, while others believe they can't survive when actually there is a suprise in store for them if they just keep the faith. A hard death by the dark side of life is a very small price to pay for an eternity in paradise, wouldn't you agree? Don't believe me, heres another example. Have you seen that movie "The Dark Knight?" If not you should, BECAUSE IT ROCKS!!! To be honest, its the best movie I've seen in a very long time, but thats besides the point. Point is, there is one scene, where there are two boats of people fleeing Gothem to escape the Joker's terrorist-like wrath. One is full of convicts, while the other if full of innocent civilians. Unknown to the passengers, the cargohold of the ship is chalk full of oil. The Joker placed an explosive on the boats and gave both ships two remotes. The remotes would trigger an explosion in the other ships hold, thus killing everybody! If one boat didn't blow up the other by midnight, the Joker was gonna blow them both to hell. Through many attempts, neither boat full of passengers could bring themselves to destroy the other, untill one convict; played by Thomas Lister Jr, told the captian of the convict ship to give him the remote so he could "do what needed to be done an hour ago." Rather then flip the switch and blow the boat full of civilians to smitherenes like everybody expected, he tossed the remote out the window. Though the other convicts were upset, nobody protested. [I'm not gonna tell what happened next, but put simply, it was a lucky break for everyone] Though this situation is pretty farfetched, can you honestly tell me God would have been angry at this man for sparing the innocents but condeming the corrupted. I doubt it. So yes you are correct, a good hearted person couldn't possible survive a situation like this, but in refusing it for the greater good, that indivisual would have reserved his/her spot in heavan. If you ask me, thats a pretty sweet deal. I'm running outta space, I'll leave the rest as a comment.