3 ms·
Oh my God. Of course I’m presupposing the idea of the omnipotent/omniscient/… God: > > Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
by avgcorrection 3y ago
Oh my God. Of course I’m presupposing the idea of the omnipotent/omniscient/… God:
> > Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then from whence comes evil?
Because that’s the premise of the problem statement!
> This is an assumption you are making that many (most?) religions do not.
And?
- bart_spoon 3y agoThe original problem is only a problem is you are making those assumptions. When most religions aren’t making those assumptions, the entire thing becomes a strawman argument
- avgcorrection 3y agoDo you know what assumptions are? Clearly not. For some reason you decided to take this up with someone who was responding to a problem statement which had already been established; the parameters were set. I don’t know why you seem to be taking offense to the part about how this is a “religious problem”. No, that doesn’t mean that all religions share this supposed problem. Rebirth/reincarnation is relevant to Hinduism but not all religions. And a glib response about how “not all religions” make these assumptions is also a useless starting point. (Not that I care to discuss this with anyone since it’s not my pet cause.) My first thought was that you might be alluding to something like Buddhism or some other very non-Christian religion. But I see in some other comments that you mention “other Christian sects”. Okay, yeah, sure. That makes things really simple to respond to: Hey, not all religions share these assumptions! (But I’m not gonna tell you where I’m coming from, either.)