Had the power but opted not to: god is himself some part evil
Didn't have the power, did the best he could with the tools he had: god is not omnipotent.

Pick one.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Going by the Bible, it's both. He acted with malice and proved himself to not be omnipotent many times.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jod introduced the idea of freewill to the board.

Lucifer said "That's a bad idea, chief. Free will would ruin them."

Jod cast him out.

Humans fucked everything up.

Jod sent his CTO, Jesus to try and fix it. It went poorly.

Lucifer said " I told you so"

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

"What if you gave them free will AND ALSO gave them the knowledge of the true nature of existence, rather than relying on them figuring everything out via very obviously man-made religions?"

"Naw."

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