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zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months agoWhat’s worse: a world where an all-powerful, all-knowing God lets us decide what we do, even if it’s crimes, or a world where every action one makes is decided by this all-powerful, all-knowing God?
I choose freedom.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
If your god is all knowing and all powerful, he could have set the starting conditions of the world up so that no one would ever feel the need to commit murder without imposing on free will
zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could he? What could we know about things that could or couldn’t have been? We can’t have even the slightest idea of what the existing realities were before time and space, we just can’t judge God’s creative process. We only know what is, and what God asks us to do in our world, that is to defend and protect the victims of the Evil.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But you don’t know what god wants from you. That’s the whole point. You are choosing to believe the words of some dudes in the desert 1700 years ago because they make you feel good. You don’t KNOW anything about God because it’s all speculation. Yes I know, that’s what faith is. But that’s not knowledge and to claim it as such is insulting. Every time I hear it.
zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re right “know” is not the good word. I don’t know if the Bible is true or not, I don’t know if God exists or not. I generally don’t use this word in this context, but there it slipped, sorry for that.
But I did not chose to believe because it makes me feel good. To say that is far more insulting than what I said.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
If he couldn’t, then he’s not all powerful is he
zloubida@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re making a judgment about something no human can comprehend. It’s your right of course, but doesn’t seem rational to me.
Or he does a very good job giving us freedom.