My apologies, I didn’t realize I was talking to the authority on all things God of the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I’m truly honored to speak to such an expert like yourself.
Please, use your vast knowledge and let Muslims know it was the Evil White Man tampering with their holy book that led them to believe God is all knowing and all powerful.
You're not speaking to an authority. That's my point. And in the same way I'm not an authority -- neither are you.
Any law or rule that exists to benefit one person while disadvantaging another was made by someone who stood to directly benefit from it.
How you feel about it is irrelevant.
Perception has been cleverly skewed.
There is this statement along the lines of "the devil's greatest trick was convincing people he didn't exist".
Assuming that's true, then wouldn't it be an even greater feat to hide oneself inside something said to have been touched or sent by God?
For example, by influencing religious figures. Even if God is infallible, people are not.
To better understand my point, I think you need a better grasp of what truth is.
Many people believe that truth is perception, that's not true. Perception can be biased or limited based on the point of your view.
For example, to men periods aren't a big deal -- because they don't have to deal with the repercussions.
Only by looking at any piece of information or event from multiple angles can you really get closer to the truth of a matter. So what is truth?
A central point from which all aspects can be seen.
This is my understanding of what God is, what you call omnipotence.
There are also a few fundamentally flawed aspects to your thought process.
Assuming that doctrines and scriptures have been altered to be detrimental (this happens in christianity today, even as we speak) then it means your understanding of God has also been skewed.
Since you've been fed information that is "mostly" or "probably" accurate, that leaves you wondering what you can trust.
Reality. By casting away your own prejudices and biases you will come to see the truth of the world. This universe runs on balance, energy never dies it simply assumes a different form many times. Suddenly, reincarnation is less of a trivial concept -- science has also proved this a universal truth.
So..why does Christianity converge on this point? No one knows. You don't. I don't. So my question is--why are you so offended? People who came before you just "Said " they had answers that came from God. Maybe they did, but its more likely they just perceived the answer they got in a different way than most.
The nature of the world is balance. Fires beget storms that affect places thousands of miles away and those ripples create tsunamis which trigger earth quakes and so on.
If that's the case, its a more logical belief that God is a being of balance. That would mean God holds two aspects to itself and wants to keep both in harmony. This makes it less a battle of good and evil, and more an act of maintaining balance.
Which is what religion should have been from the start. Men were the ones that tainted this belief in order to be more beneficial to themselves most likely. To understand that, you simply have to know human nature.
Logic doesn't matter to most people, they only care about the emotion or the result. Most people would absolutely tell a lie then kill all of the people who try to expose it if they felt inclined and had the power to do so.
What does that sound like? Early Christianity. Christians were put to death for hundreds of years before the religion became mainstream. Why? Because they were telling a truth that other men , men in power didn't like.
In other words, a point of view that wasn't beneficial to said men.
I find religion fascinating, frankly. And regardless of what you think, I wasn't trying to insult you or anything you believe in. Quite the opposite. If sharing the truth makes me a devil, I'll always be that. If pointing out that parts of the bible which directly contradicts God's word were obviously fudged is a problem, then I guess I'm problematic.
The real problem is that most people are too concerned with accepting sweet lies than taking a look at the hard truth.
Also to counter your point about God powers, if God and the universe follow the law of trying to balance itself, there's no possible way a thing such as omnipotence is constantly active. If it is constantly active there has to be an equal and opposite trade off to using it. For example, perhaps not being able to move while using the technique -- a completely zen like state that prevents the user from doing anything else -- even focusing on themselves.
This is what I mean when I say that you're activating on a ton of assumptions, reality even contradicts a lot of what you said.
The very laws of nature , matter and the universe do as well.
From that standpoint, no this story prompt isn't really as cut and dry as you might think. It's only made that way because you believed a narrative created by an angry atheist who could *only* rationalize that God must be a terrible entity to abide war (that wasn't started by God in the first place).
That assumes men are the main actors. God has a whole universe or planet to take care of and men are ruining Eden as we speak for profit and imaginary value. In short, mind blowing hubris, pride and ego.
I'm not puffing my chest out, I'm pointing out why your logic is flawed and you're getting upset in response.
That's your prerogative, you can't say I'm wrong though. At least my thoughts are logical and backed by evidence of reality. Yours are just "because someone 2,000 years ago said so, so it must be true." . People lie everyday.