• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Abrahamic religions make a lot more sense if God isn’t omniscient and he’s using our reality to understand suffering in a way that an all-powerful being can’t

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      6 months ago

      Honestly it seems like thats what they were getting at in the very old texts, but then it gets lost in translation on purpose. imo. into this all powerful all knowing being for power or greed . if you look into the older occult side like Christian mysticism, the kabbala, and other major religious mystic writings is what I mean

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        6 months ago

        It varies wildly depending on the author. Sometimes he controls all of reality and other times he doesn’t even know what’s happening in the next town over.

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      6 months ago

      He’s a very small-scale god, like what you’d expect from desert nomads thousands of years ago.