RE: The Problem of Evil (XXVII)
June 7, 2016 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2016 at 11:13 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(June 7, 2016 at 9:03 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I've never understood the objection that God's omnipotence is limited by the logically possible. Does it come from the bible?... Why is he constrained from violating logical laws?
John 1:1 explicitly identifies God as the Divine Logos. A basic literal meaning of logos is ‘word’. That said, logos has many senses such as meaningful utterance, factual statement, declaration, and reasoned judgement. The metaphysical interpretation which Christian theology adopted comes from Stoa, who following Heraclitus, used it to signify the divine power or function by which the universe is given its unity coherence and meaning, i.e. logic. Another way of saying that God's existence is identical to His essence, which is basic Christian doctrine, is to say that Reason-Itself is identical with Being-Itself.