5stringJeff
Senior Member
If God is all-powerful, then he can't be all-benevolent.
I disagree. Please show some reasoning behind your claim.
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If God is all-powerful, then he can't be all-benevolent.
Well I don't know if it's God who gives us the choice because a) I can't speak to what God wants, thinks or b) how could life and societies work (and exist) without having sort human free will? How can we even contemplate or compare our existence without it?Actually, God gives us the choice to do wrong or right.
True to victims and perps. The victim can CHOOSE to become a perp. Then they too would be condemned. It's not all 'love and acceptance.'
The obvious answer to your question is God would need to be only powerful enough. Even if God was at the limit of his power creating Earth, life, the universe, etc .... it is still a power far being our comprehension or even conceptualization.
If God is all powerful, then is he able to create a boulder so heavy he can't even lift it?
You're one of the first to realize, or at least answer knowing it is a trick question. (albeit one that trips up the religious moreso than the non).
Of course he would only need to be powerful 'enough'. The question also makes no judgement about how powerful God actually is, just how powerful he would 'need to be'.
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