I think any omnipotent god of any religion isn't and shouldn't be afraid of anything, because if they're in complete control (making them omnipotent), why would they create something that would scare them?
If you or anyone want to believe in an omnipotent being then treasure the fact that magick was made by that same being and the results through magick are real because they made it so.
Well, many condemn the christian god as an entity that feeds off fear and manipulates emotions of his follows, however, I believe that all gods are one and they are merely the faces (characters) we make to represent a great spiritual force that lives both inside us and as an external force. a point was made earlier that the bible translations often get the difference between 'poisoner' and 'witch' mixed up. The christian god is recorded to have created this entire world, so he would not create anything that would harm himself, instead, people feared magic, not God. The powerful, wealthy and influential people were educated, while the poor remained illiterate. This meant that the very few educated people had power over the uneducated. They kept it this way by using people's fear of eternity in hell and the like to control them. that's my theory, anyway.
God is not omnipotent or all powerful. If that was the case, why would evil exist? He has no power over me. If he thinks this stuff is an abomination, why would we know about it? If he was all knowing why would he have created lucifer? If he was all powerful why would he need the angels? He basically made the garden of edin a nice little zoo. If he didn't wasn't us to eat that fruit, than why was it there? If lucifer was our enemy why wouldn't we be dead? Lucifer is called evil, but he killed ten people all with permission. God sacrifieced his own son. He caused a flood and wiped out millions of people. He basically says follow me or suffer eternal torture. If the tree of knowledge was evil, why did it exist. Eating from that tree of knowledge was evil, than knowledge is evil. Knowledge is something to suffer for. If we where imperfect why where we created?
I was brought up a Catholic. The Catholic Church has never condemned magic. It condemned "witchcraft". The reason was a simple one. Witches, when there were very few doctors, did all the healing of illness; especially in emotional healing.The Church wanted only their priests to do the healing. So witchcraft was banned! But magic? A Catholic priest uses magic every morning at Mass! Jesus was said to use magic; what do you think the miracles are? Moses used magic.
No, it wasn't magic that the Catholic Church was against. It was witchcraft!
I no longer think myself a Catholic, but I can still say what I've been taught over the years is that the christian God allowed all these 'evils' to exist to test his people, to see which will be faithful to him and which ones will betray him. Lucifer doesn't kill outright like one would think, he wants you to sin so you can spend an eternity in hell, just as he was condemned to when he tried to defy God. As humans, we will often times want to disobey the word of this God, that's why he made angels, they guide us and grow with us 24/7, like a beloved and trusted brother or sister, which if you think about it, seems better company than a distant god. He created the tree of knowledge to test Adam and Eve, see if they would really do as they were told or not. Of course, this all comes from the beliefs of the parish that taught me, although I no longer follow it, there are many good and loving things about the Christian faith, it's just that corruption, fear, and intolerance has made it into a religion that advocates all these bad things they had done.
Note: I am an eclectic pagan, all that I have stated was the beliefs that the Catholic church has taught me, I don't follow much of it, not do I believe in this type of doctrine, just wanted to put a more 'civilised' view of the Christian God. If anyone finds anything I could be wrong about, let me know.
