• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    There’s a work of fiction called UNSONG which posits an answer for this - essentially that God’s purpose is to maximize the amount of good that exists, but at the level of abstraction he functions two identical things are really just one thing, one template. So he creates a perfect world, then ones with a single imperceptible flaw, then ones with two such flaws, etc. Eventually you reach ones whose potential for good is only a slight net positive, and that’s more the neighborhood we’re in.

    • RIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      See, but then there’s the problem

      that would make him not all powerful

      And under that concept I see absolutely no reason to worship him.