RE: If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist
June 10, 2023 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2023 at 5:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 10, 2023 at 7:47 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(June 10, 2023 at 3:49 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I didn’t say any “god” worthy of worship is self contradicting. I say a god that is both all powerful and worthy of worship is self contradicting.
Not in any clear or obvious way.
The contradiction is all powerful entity would have no reason to ever come to behave in any specific way. Any attempt to explain how such an entity come to behave in any manner attributed to him inescapably and implicitly implies limitations in the entity’s power had compelled the entity to behave in a specific way to circumvent some effects of these limitations.