• djtech@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nothing in the Bible says that God is truly omnipotent; the Bibile itself references multiple times the existence of Satan, the evil, which ruins the existence on Earth and pushes people to commit sins.

    So no, this meme doesn’t have any fucking sense.

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      1 year ago

      Atheist here. I have a co-worker who says the world is ultimately just and so we don’t have to really work at improving things because the difference will be paid off in the afterlife.

      Do you subscribe to that as well?

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        1 year ago

        Yes, the bible says that God created Satan, an entity which had free will and was “good”. Like the human, the entity could also do sinful things thanks to the fact that he had free will. Infact, Satan turned “bad” but Lucifer’s sinful pride cost him his place in paradise.

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          1 year ago

          But if he’s so powerful that he can stick him in the centre of the earth, why couldn’t he put him in a place where he actually wasn’t able to tempt humanity?

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            1 year ago

            As already said, he isn’t omnipotent, so no, he cannot directly control him.

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      1 year ago

      The bible doesn’t say a lot of shit that many Christians claim to be true anyway. It is absolutely a common claim that god is omnipotent.