One of which that I’m aware is: the devil was deliberately created with the knowledge of its future rebellion to test the faith of people. Another is to wait for them to repent. I don’t follow any more, but deeper into catholicism there’s a surprising amount of theory. For a religion with an organized structure, it’s not very organized.
If Satan is less powerful, that means god can stop evil but chooses not to?
Oh boy… I think there have been entire books written about this argument like , 100’s of years ago?
Google “theodicy”.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theodicies/
I’ll give that a read later and reply after
Either that or:-
is not as powerful as advertised
has a different definition of evil
doesn’t exist
Maybe some other possibilities.
One of which that I’m aware is: the devil was deliberately created with the knowledge of its future rebellion to test the faith of people. Another is to wait for them to repent. I don’t follow any more, but deeper into catholicism there’s a surprising amount of theory. For a religion with an organized structure, it’s not very organized.
Satan doesn’t do evil. He merely tricks people into doing evil. Kind of like a criminal lawyer than an evil god.
Isn’t manipulating and coercing people to do evil things also evil?