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🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰 (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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God is love just don't ask for the receipts

He's all powerful except for whenever

How many Jesus, the Living Embodiment of YHWH, does it take to change a lightbulb

buddy christ meme "i could definitely help you with that, i just won't"
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That doesn't make sense.

If i choose to murder someone i am impeding their free will.

If god chooses to save someone from murder, then it impedes the free will of the murderer.

Why is only one of those a problem?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's like the difference between the government punishing you for free speech and a Lemmy mod banning you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In your example the outcomes are different. What if the only difference was the actor who stopped the murder, would that still make a difference?

    Eg: if i trip a murderer so they can't kill the victim, vs if god causes a murderer to trip. Ia one of those violating free will and a other one not?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Maybe it'll help to think about it in terms of an experiment. God is the scientist and humans are the test subjects. If the scientist interferes with the test subjects, the data loses meaning, but if the test subjects interfere with each other it's just part of the experiment.

    Basically: supreme authority interfering = bad.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except an all knowing entity has absolutely no reason to run experiments. This is a bad analogy.

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