>>2423437You can't directly prove or disprove free-will. I mean the adage, "it's all God's plan" would render creation meaningless, like an elaborate movie made for its creator's own enjoyment. If a master whips a slave and demands a profession of love, does the slave's love mean anything? What meaning does love of God have if you are a sock puppet? Furthermore why would a hundred innocent little girls drown in a Texas flash-flood be the plan of a loving God? Many religions and philosophies struggle with the question, "why do bad things happen to good people?" The arrive at wild conclusions like a Baptist's, "they didn't love God enough", or a Hindu's, "because of a transgression they committed in a past life." But they hold onto this idea that it was God's intention bad things happen, when doesn't make sense that God is at the wheel.
The most rational conclusion is bad things happen to good people because God is not at the wheel. The Atheist concluded there is no God. The Deist concludes there is a loving God, but he is absolutely never at the wheel.
I choose to believe there is a God who created humanity in his image with the providence to arrive at his own conclusion. That God is extremely cautious with how he intervenes in creation. Perhaps, in that scenario, I can concede he came to Earth just once to set humanity on the correct path.
There may be factors here that are impossible for our human vessels to understand, maybe the pain of tragedy is only contextualized upon death with the realization of cyclically infinite universe, so all this hurt and injustice are insignificant. Who knows?