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<blockquote data-quote="Blindwatchmaker" data-source="post: 75794144" data-attributes="member: 433382"><p>All of these objections to the problem of evil anthropomorphise God, making him sound like a limited mortal struggling to get things right in a very challenging world and hoping that things pan out ok or he might be sad.</p><p></p><p>You can't have it both ways. Is he a god or a man?</p><p></p><p>It is not consistent to define a god as having all (logically possible) powers and knowledge and then impose arbitrary limits on those powers when convenient in order to preserve the coherency of doctrinal ideas.</p><p></p><p>If God specifically wants suffering to happen, then he is evil.</p><p>If he doesn't want it to happen then he seems inept.</p><p>For those blaming Satan for all this inconvenience, does Satan cause childhood leukaemia? Ebola?</p><p>Covid?...</p><p></p><p>Is God powerless to stop Satan or happy to let him do his thing?</p><p></p><p>Can you see how to an outsider this all all looks like a rather badly written fantasy?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blindwatchmaker, post: 75794144, member: 433382"] All of these objections to the problem of evil anthropomorphise God, making him sound like a limited mortal struggling to get things right in a very challenging world and hoping that things pan out ok or he might be sad. You can't have it both ways. Is he a god or a man? It is not consistent to define a god as having all (logically possible) powers and knowledge and then impose arbitrary limits on those powers when convenient in order to preserve the coherency of doctrinal ideas. If God specifically wants suffering to happen, then he is evil. If he doesn't want it to happen then he seems inept. For those blaming Satan for all this inconvenience, does Satan cause childhood leukaemia? Ebola? Covid?... Is God powerless to stop Satan or happy to let him do his thing? Can you see how to an outsider this all all looks like a rather badly written fantasy? [/QUOTE]
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