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0 pointskrapp4y ago0 comments

>If God hadn't meant the loophole to be there then he would have used different words. The loophole is divine.

One could just as well state that if God had meant the loophole to be there, he would have mentioned it.

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Kalium4y ago· 6 in thread

When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver, that line of argument is a little weak.

If you assume omniscience and omnipotence as a starting point, then you can justify anything that exists using the same reason, otherwise it wouldn't exist, right? I don't mean to get into a theological or ontological argument, though. It just seems like you can use the foundation to justify anything you want.

stickfigure4y ago

"If God didn't intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

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leephillips4y ago

Where did you get the idea that the Hebrew God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent? I am told that biblical Hebrew does not even have a word for omnipotent.

skissane4y ago

Orthodox Jews accept Rambam (Maimonides)'s 13 principles of the faith. Rambam taught that all his 13 principles can be derived from the Torah.

The 10th principle explicitly says that God is omniscient. The 1st principle "Belief in the existence of the Creator, who is perfect in every manner of existence and is the Primary Cause of all that exists" doesn't explicitly mention omnipotence but rather obviously entails it. (If God is not omnipotent, then God is not "perfect in every manner of existence" since God would not be perfect in power.)

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/332555/jewish...

Whether or not the ancient Hebrews believed in divine omniscience and omnipotence is something that can be historically debated. But contemporary Orthodox Jews do.

(I'm not Jewish but I hope I've stated the Orthodox Jewish viewpoint accurately.)

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wolverine8764y ago

> When you believe in an omniscient and omnipotent lawgiver

Is that assumed in Judaism?

krappOP4y ago

I mean... If God's so omnipotent why did he need to rest on the seventh day to begin with?

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