That’s a phrase that I heard recently, and I think that it’s from some famous philosopher, but uhm…

I don’t know how to debunk it.

I’m doing my best to believe without thinking too much about that.

Some days it gets hard tho, so I’d like to hear you guys’ take on it.

  • modeler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    I don’t remember anything in the Bible about God being omnibenevolent. That seems to have been added to Christian doctrine by later religious philosophers.

    These properties were indeed added but it was by the church fathers very early in church history when christianity was very different in belief and form compared with today.

    At this time the early church interacted with greek and roman ideas to create a new religion to differentiate it from Judaism from which it was born - you can see some of this debate in the new testament between the traditional jewish pov (such as in Matthew in the sermon on the mount) and different laws for non-jews such as circumcision not being needed in Paul’s letters.

    In exactly the same way, it’s impossible to find the doctrine of the trinity in the bible. And yet the trinity is declared in the nicene creed and is the keystone to christian identity

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.netEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Funnily enough, I’m also a unitarian. Unitarianism (the denomination) was pretty popular until the middle of the last century when it was mostly absorbed into Unitarian Universalism, and other denominations (eg. Jehovah’s Witness) are still unitarian, so I wouldn’t call it a “keystone”.

      Following the example of Christ is a keystone. True repentance is a keystone. Professing the Gospel is a keystone.