• Stovetop
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    9 months ago

    You’ve basically touched on one of the core logical issues at play in Abrahamic religions (and others). God is omnipotent and omniscient, or people have free will. It can’t be both.

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      9 months ago

      God knowing what you will do does not remove your responsibility of the decision you made.

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        9 months ago

        This isn’t about responsibility, it’s about preventing suffering. If you could prevent a genocidal leader from being born, which you knew would save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, why wouldn’t you? Because it’s that person’s “responsibility” that all of those innocent people died after all?

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        9 months ago

        So is God powerless to stop people from committing evil?