@wirehead-wannabe Nah I’m pretty sure he’s serious.
Of course, I have still never seen a satisfying explanation WRT the Problem of Evil. The whole “hey we’re going to design this system to do things we don’t want it to, and also to feel, and then exact literally infinite punishment for doing exactly what we knew it would during the design phase, even though we have literally infinite time and resources to pour into engineering” thing is likely never going to be properly answered. “Free will,” is, as ever, a cop-out, as it has always been, especially when one controls the literal laws of the universe.
All this fussing about “God says do this” or “God says don’t do that”, combined with “God is Good”, when the option for a completely different system design from the very start was always on the table, is nonsensical.
Plus, once you’ve posited magic of that tier, nothing prevents the whole thing from being a ruse by another supernatural being instead, including any and all forms of divine revelation.
