(August 30, 2009 at 1:39 pm)Darwinian Wrote: How about the paradox between omnipotence and omniscience?
An omniscient god knows everything. Therefore he can never change his mind, have a new idea, be surprised etc.
However, if he is also omnipotent he can do anything including these things. If he cannot do these things he is not omnipotent and yet if he can then he can't be omniscient.
Either/or but not both.
Indeed, not both. Also, an omniscient being knows everything, and therefore it can't be wrong, or surprised. However, the christian god is very often surprised, or dead wrong, and therefore is not omniscient.
Omnipotence and all-powerfulness are separated by a very small line (completely culturally). Linguistically, they are about the same. Most arguments against all-powerfulness can be usually applied to omnipotence.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day