Oracles of Nethys?

[deuxhero]

Gods and Magic wrote:

Followers are forbidden from using imbue with spell ability (or similar spells that grant spellcasting abilities) on targets who cannot normally cast spells or use spell-like abilities; it is considered an unworthy sharing of blessed magic

Inner Sea Gods wrote:

Priests of Nethys use imbue with spell ability to teach apprentices how powerful magic feels; sorcerers and wizards who worship Nethys may learn it as a 4th-level spell, and bards may do so as a 3rd-level spell. Nethys’s followers are, however, forbidden to use spells that grant spellcasting to share magic with those normally unable to cast spells or use spell-like abilities.

How do Oracles, who are given their abilities, work with this? Does Nethys consider himself above this rule? Does he not have them (like Apsu)?

[PossibleCabbage]

Nothing an oracle does will ever result in the revocation of their powers. It's not entirely clear that an oracle who worships Nethys even has their powers come from Nethys.

[Quandary]

I'd say it would come down to social/formal censure by established church or Nethys or his followers, if they know the Oracle is doing this it would put them in poor standing with church. If they want to play along and be part of church, they need to follow along. I don't think the church would be put off by an Oracle per se, since they don't care so much about source of magic, but gotta play by the rules and not indulge the unworthy.

[Paradozen]

The rules apply to the followers, not to Nethys himself. He cares about pretty much only one thing, magic. Everything else is kinda peripheral and unimportant. I think it would be in character for him to empower oracles as a side-effect of something else he was doing.

[Gamerskum]

He could also empower them for inscrutable reasons that will some how improve the state of magic in the world hundreds of years later.