• Skasi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What’s the definition of “all powerful”? Would an all-powerful being need to be able to draw a square without it being a rectangle? Or to build a house without walls?

    If the answer is “no”, then I’d argue that the left most arrow/conclusion is logically wrong/misplaced/invalid. Assuming that “free will” is not possible without “evil”.

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      4 months ago

      Agreed.

      Evil is also a subjective concept, the same action can be perceived as good or evil depending on the understood context.

      When you allow action on the subjective experience of life aka free will, you also allow evil to emerge from those actions as those interaction collide with the subjective experience of others.

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      4 months ago

      That’s the thing, it seems too simplistic, though probably is a good start towards something, better understanding I suppose.

      Like all planar squares must be rectangles, but curved square nonplanar washers exist… and those neither disprove nor prove the existence of a God (or Gods, or any spiritual beings at all)?:-P

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      The devil as they say is in the details, like what exactly is evil, in order to go from mere wordplay to true philosophical understanding. imho at least.