(March 15, 2011 at 1:57 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Assigning a god the supposed attributes of being the locus of morality, omnibenevolent and freedom to act. Ignoring issues with reality are these attributes contradictory?:
0. If a god exists he is the locus of morality, omnibenevolent and totally free to act.
1. As the locus of morality a god could only ever choose to do good things (such that it is necessarily true that, this god cannot do evil things) as determined by their nature.
2. An ominbenevolent god would only ever choose to do good things (or at lest the maximum amount of good things)
3. A god who is totally free to act must be able to choose to do evil things or not maximise the amount of good things that happen
4. A god does not exist
Interesting post, but I am afraid it's going to quickly become a game of semantics (and may have already, I have not caught up on all the replies) because Christian Theologians do not define certain terms the same way that you are using them in your syllogism (i.e. Logic, Omnipotence, and Good). So I do not feel this is an appropriate approach you are trying to take. Interesting none-the-less.
