(January 11, 2023 at 8:21 am)Belacqua Wrote:(January 11, 2023 at 7:48 am)Jehanne Wrote: Is not the real McCoy, if He exists, capable of pulling off the same hat trick?
I guess that depends very much on what you think the real God is like. Obviously Spinoza's God wouldn't undertake the kind of kenosis you describe. I think it would be fair to say that Spinoza's God "couldn't" become a person. Omnipotence doesn't mean that God could go against his own nature.
The threads that people start on this forum nearly always address the anthropomorphic emotional God from a literal reading of the Old Testament -- the concept of God that Blake called Nobodaddy. So the argument is that God would think and act like a big powerful person. I agree with you that if God were like that, he would likely perform demonstrations as he does in the Old Testament.
One must wonder how deists or pantheists know so much about what their God is unwilling to do or what feats their God is not capable of.
