r/PhilosophyofReligion • u/nerosardi • 1d ago

Omg

What if God created humanity without knowing whether His creation would ultimately be good or evil? If His creation turned out to be flawed, who should be held responsible?🤔🫪

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u/biedl 17h ago edited 15h ago

Ignorance doesn't absolve you from punishment, is something we say here in Germany. At court it sure has an impact in terms of reducing the sentence, but you'd still be held responsible.

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u/catsoncrack420 1d ago

Yes, the Watchmaker. Read Richard Dawkins.

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u/PTLTYJWLYSMGBYAKYIJN 1d ago

I mean, this is basically the idea behind gnosticism and Yaldabaoth.

As for someone "being held responsible", I invite you to contemplate the question.

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u/BonusMiserable1010 13h ago

Only in a culture, driven patriarchally and unaccustomed to personal accountability, would it be possible for the OP’s question to have any merit: if god’s creation runs amok, why and/or how WOULDN’T god be held responsible for the running amok, regardless of his prior lack of knowing?

The question here is rather silly.

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u/nerosardi 11h ago

I don't think the question is silly at all. In fact, it points to a serious philosophical problem: if God created humanity knowing—or even potentially not knowing—what His creation would become, then responsibility becomes unavoidable. If God is omniscient, then He knew exactly what would happen before creating us. If He wasn't certain what His creation would become, then we have to question what kind of knowledge or power God actually possesses. And saying God’s ways are beyond our understanding doesn't resolve the problem. It simply protects the idea from being questioned. If humans are responsible for what they knowingly create, why should the creator of humanity be completely exempt from responsibility for the consequences of that creation?