RE: My views on objective morality
March 28, 2016 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2016 at 1:06 pm by JuliaL.)
(March 28, 2016 at 12:13 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:MYBOLD(March 28, 2016 at 11:54 am)JuliaL Wrote: If God is omniscient, then does She know that there is nothing She does not knowThat is another interesting paradox, but not exactly germane to the discussion at hand. While I am not in a position to present an exhaustive reply, I can give you some indication of how I would approach the issue. The God of Classical Monotheism is fully in act and thus exhausts all potentials as demonstrated by Thomas Aquinas’s First Way, the Argument from Motion. If there is an object of knowledge that a god could potentially know but does not, then that deity is not fully in act and thus would not be the same God identified in the First Way.
This is a verbose equivalent to "She just does."
I can grant EVERYTHING you've said about your God of Classical Monotheism (GCM) and you have no way to counter the following:
Breaks into his best Ron Popeil impression...
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE.
GCM was created after a night of heavy drinking by the first meta-God: Larry.
GCM is unaware of this and all statements about GCM (particularly those gained via divine revelation from GCM) are limited by this fact.
I have this by means of divine revelation from Larry of whom GCM is unaware.
Larry has also clued me in regarding a Get Out of Hell Free card available in many fine local retail shops.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
