RE: The Christian God is NOT simple.
July 14, 2011 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2011 at 5:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 14, 2011 at 5:24 am)theVOID Wrote:(July 14, 2011 at 3:29 am)Chuck Wrote: 1. For a being to be able to do everything, he must be able to alter what he has already known would happen, thus doing everything must include negating omniscience.
You might be onto something here, but it's still a bit vague to me, can you expand on this?
For a being to be omniscient, he must unerringly see what will and would not happen. For a being to be omnipotent, he must be able to make happen what could happen but would not otherwise happen. So if omniscience lets him see what could happen but will not happen, then his omnipotence must allow him to make it happen anyway, thus negating his omniscience. So if omnipotence stands, omniscience can not.
The reverse is also true. If omniscience stands, than the being is mechanistic and unable to make anything which otherwise would happen not happen, nor anything which would otherwise happen not happen. His power to influence things on your behalf is zero.
So the concept of a being that is both omniscient and omnipotent is nonsensical and insisted upon by the faithful only to bluff the unthinking.
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