RE: What do you think of this argument for God?
March 4, 2017 at 4:43 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2017 at 4:46 am by SuperSentient.)
(March 4, 2017 at 4:33 am)Jesster Wrote: As for "greatest possible being," how are we defining "greatest" here? How can we be sure that the "greatest" possible being can do any of these things before we know what's possible? Where's the data on these possibilities?
This being would be independent of what we know, so it wouldn't matter what we all know is possible, just that this being is the greatest being possible.
"Greatest" would be a manifestation of every logical possibility.
(March 4, 2017 at 4:33 am)Jesster Wrote: As for "greatest possible being," how are we defining "greatest" here? How can we be sure that the "greatest" possible being can do any of these things before we know what's possible? Where's the data on these possibilities?
(March 4, 2017 at 4:29 am)TheAtheologian Wrote: An apple has a universal definition.
You would agree though that god has no universal definition, it may be up to religions. Theists can use premise 1 as the definition of their god.
Then replace "God" in your argument with "Olgiathothle". Are we still talking about the same thing? It works just as well. Are we even talking about something that's possible?
Yes we would be talking about the same thing. I am just referring to that as one concept of God theists can hold to.
Hail Satan! 
