RE: MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)
December 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:16 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(December 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Jenny A Wrote: How can you have more than one omnipotent being? Either they can't best each other in which case they aren't omnipotent; or they can each best the other in which case they aren't omnipotent.
Omnipotence is only the ability to do what is logically possible...and it isn't logically possible for them to "best" each other.
Omnipotence itself is logically impossible. But even if you define it as only what's logically possible so as to avoid questions like, can god make a rock so heavy he can't pick it up, that doesn't solve the problem of multiple omnipotent beings. There's no logical problem with an omnipotent being being able to make a rock some big that no one else can pick it up. In fact that ability is assumed in the definition of omnipotence.
Quote:(Of a deity) having unlimited power; able to do anything.http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/def...omnipotent
Which is why having more than one of them is a problem. They can't both be in control of everything because their power must each be limited by the other. If there's more than one omnipotent being than you are going to have to redefine omnipotent.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.