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Is the Devil omnipotent?

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  • #52
    ryoishin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭ryoishin


    Depends on what you believe evil to be. Your dead right to say why would a good God create evil. If evil is the abscence of goodness and not some supernatural force then this would allow for both a good God and the fact that there is evil. The devil in his creation is good but chooses to reject that goodness.

    (I think)


  • #53
    PDN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    Helper_Monkey wrote: »
    Answer me this paradox:

    If god is all powerful, all knowing, creator of the universe; Why did he create evil, or allow the creation of a being that was capable of evil.

    Surely if he is all knowing he would forsee the future evil arising and the suffering it would bring.

    Seemingly he is not perfect since his creation is infested by the parasite that is evil?

    So either god isnt perfect as previously thought or he doesnt exist. Starting with the premise he does exist (which you will anyways :-p ); is there a reasonable explination?

    The most common explanation is that of free will. It goes something like this.
    1. Free will is something precious and important. People value it so much that they are willing to be tortured and killed rather than submit to enslavement.
    2. Free will involves the ability to choose between good and evil. Therefore God had to permit the possibility of evil if he were to create man with free will.
    3. A world with free will and evil is better than a world without evil yet without free will.

    If you want to study this subject more I would recommend reading some of Alvin Plantinga's works.


  • #54
    Vengeance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Vengeance


    About a month ago i asked soulwinner was he a deist. It was basically just asking was the quote from Thomas Jefferson an affirmation of Jefferson's beliefs.Happy argumenting!


  • #55
    Nerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    why would god create him? because the devil makes god look great.
    i like the paradise lost version of the devil,he's basically a teenager


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