RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
July 29, 2019 at 4:34 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 4:39 am by Belacqua.)
(July 29, 2019 at 4:03 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Or they can tell you that Aristotelianism was abandoned by scientists after the medieval times in favor of other disciplines such as atomism or Hermeticism. And the only people that cling to it are the occultists that also still believe in alchemy and other nonsense
It's true that some people might say that. Do you have specific arguments you want to rebut? Anything relevant to the thread?
Is there some evidence you have that "the only people that cling to it are the occultists that also still believe in alchemy and other nonsense"? Or is this your opinion?
Quote:Numbers are names for quantity. Number on itself that doesn't represent any quantity is nothing.
What arguments led you to this conclusion?
(July 29, 2019 at 4:33 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: Belaqua: I wouldn't agree that God is simple. An intelligence that "knows" everything? Very complex. But that's a different argument.
What makes you disagree? You seem to know something of God, so you can say that what theologians say of him is wrong.
I guess we'll have to work out exactly what sort of God you're asking about, and whether the theologians' arguments are relevant to what you're asking.
Quote:So that changes my question specifically for you then: How can something be omniscient and immaterial? What is God made of?
They say that he is made of nothing. That's what being immaterial is, I think.
I should clarify that when I say "made of nothing" I don't mean it in the way that "the chair is made of wood." Nothingness is not a material for making things. Maybe better to say that God isn't made of any material.