Re: RE: The logical consequences of omnipotence
January 31, 2013 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2013 at 6:07 pm by fr0d0.)
I am perpetually shocked at the ability of existentialists to understand this. I've noticed it elsewhere, but my sister is extraordinary if I say so myself.
In the following you're starting a new topic between us Ryan. Just to make that clear.
2. That's a contradiction. If God wasn't the prime mover, ie he had to be moved by something, then he wasn't the prime mover. Prime mover means just that... prime.
In the following you're starting a new topic between us Ryan. Just to make that clear.
(January 31, 2013 at 5:18 pm)Ryantology Wrote: 1. The problem of Logic: if God is bound to comply with the rules of logic, then he necessarily cannot have created the rules1. God isn't compelled. God originates it. To make sense of everything coming from God, God must be logical. Otherwise we would need to assume that physics, for example, should be illogical. Our shared world view is that cause produces effect with reason.
2. If God was the Prime Mover, he must have been, himself, moved
2. That's a contradiction. If God wasn't the prime mover, ie he had to be moved by something, then he wasn't the prime mover. Prime mover means just that... prime.