(May 8, 2019 at 12:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Um no D, if one is to claim a God is "all powerful" then saying "cant" negates that power. For a God to be "all powerful" they have to be capable of lying to include any and all actions. Exclude an action, that puts a limit on the word "all".
The better argument, I'd make if I were still a theist would be, "He wouldn't do that, even though he can if he wants to".
But even then, you are stuck with "How would you know?" What methodology and control groups would help you objectively determine you've been told the truth by such a being?
He cant be "all powerful" if he is incapable of lying, even about an oath.
Catch 22.
If he can't lie then he'd not all powerful. Which means that he lied about being all powerful
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
