(September 8, 2021 at 3:02 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Something can't give or cause what it doesn't have, if this rule holds (or, at worst, is probable), then a malevolent deity is unlikely to have created mothers who instinctively protect their children.
A malevolent deity may have reasons for creating good just as a benevolent deity may have reasons for allowing evil. So this "can't give what you don't have" is false. Psychopaths fake empathy to deceive their victims all the time.