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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does "all powerful" really mean all? I mean, a lìfe sentence is only about 30 years. Since it's all just social constructs (and even if it isn't) the precise meaning of the word could different that you'd think.

Maybe god was all powerful until they created free will and found that they made free will stronger than themselves. But since god made free will, god is still all powerful.

Like humans making machine learning. We can only influence it, not control it. Does that mean we are not in control? No, we could simply pull the plug.

God could also simply pull the plug, but likely doesn't want to because we are their creation. It's only a last resort.

Anyways, that's my two cents.

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I agree that "all powerful" is an ambiguity here. For example, the famous "can he make a boulder so heavy he can't move it?"

There will always be paradoxes in the universe. So you'd have to go to each respective believer to figure out what "all powerful" means. Maybe making a utopia is impossible.

Philosophy is fun

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Indeed. Omnipotence doesn't mean to be able to do impossible things, thus God can be at the same time omnipotent and loving and create a universe in which evil exists, as it is a condition to freedom.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Philosophy is indeed fun, because philosophers know it's only theory. Religion is a lot more advanced than just theory. Religion is basically the first instance of quantum computing.

Every religion has it's own truth, but every religion is the only truth. Thus truth can clearly have different states.

Religion is all states at once, but depending on it's observer, it is only one truth at any given time and place. When two states interfere with each other, (when they get onbserved at the same time and place), you can get disastrous consequences, e.i. war.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

All religions claim to be the truth, yet contradict each other. One religion believes in only one god while others believe in more than one. One religion believe this is how the world was created, then another says differently. If all religions can't even agree on the fundamental basics, then none of them are true. Moreover, scientific discoveries have already disproven many of the religious claims.