• onslaught545@lemmy.zipBanned from community
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    I never said omnipotence required doing something. You asked how God would know what would happen, and the answer is that God is omnipotent.

    Besides, the Old testament, which all 3 abrahamic religions share, is full of stories of God directly interfering in the free will of man. If their God does exist, he is fully capable of stopping what’s happening.

    By not interfering, he’s cool with babies being starved to death, and therefore a cunt.

    But it’s all a moot point because God doesn’t exist and religion is just a tool for power and control.

      • onslaught545@lemmy.zipBanned from community
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        It’s strange how you’re trying to frame children starving to death as a good thing.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          5 months ago

          It’s strange how you’re trying to shove the blame on everything humans do onto God.

          Consider reading and responding to the link.

          • onslaught545@lemmy.zipBanned from community
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            5 months ago

            It is on God. All of the suffering in the world is because the first humans he created didn’t use their “free will” exactly how he wanted them to.

            That’s a pretty cunty thing to do.

            • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              edit-2
              5 months ago

              It’s almost like free will by definition means that God doesn’t control the actions. Did God bomb those Palestinian kids or are humans choosing to do so?

              Or are those humans forced to do so by deterministic nature, thus making their action morally neutral and not evil at all?

              • supernight52@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                3
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                5 months ago

                Can you prove free will exists? Also- if your god exists, and created those people that are killing innocents; yes. He is directly to blame.

                • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  2
                  ·
                  5 months ago

                  Unless you believe that you hold no agency over the choices you make in life you believe in free will. You can observe yourself making choices.

                  You have stated you believe in the existence of free will already by proclaiming the act of killing children to be wrong. Without free will it would simply be a predetermined event and good and evil would not exist.

                  Taking it a step further, if it’s impossible for humans to receive free will because of determinism, then you must also say that God has no free will. Which then absolves God of anything you deem “evil”.