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Horus on the Prairie's avatar

Somewhat related, I was in a comment thread elsewhere about the problem of evil, and the conclusion was that dropping omnipotence is arguably the simplest way out of that conundrum. A deity wouldn't even need to be necessarily omnipotent to start the ball rolling on a universe made of of finite matter, or to be more powerful than all of humanity.

An intriguing post for sure.

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Jens W. Pedersen's avatar

I am not that much of a philosopher, so excuse me if I am not too familiar with the vocabulary. I have a question regarding The Principle of Sufficient Reason. It does not leave any room for free will, does it? So, not only is God supposedly powerless due to this principle, but so are we. And thus, life is nothing more than an endless chain of cause and effect!? 🧐

That's a rather gloomy view, isn't it? But I think there is also a logical problem to this view, because if everything has a prior reason/cause, then the chain of cause and effect is beginningless and endless. But then how did it come about? Do we not need a "first cause" to make sense of it? Otherwise it's just endless and mindless chains forever...🤷

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