RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
September 10, 2019 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 5:29 am by Belacqua.)
(September 10, 2019 at 5:22 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: I came up with one: "God did not create that from which he is made. So God did not create everything".
Well, in other words, perhaps logic and God are made of nothing (but nothing means something we have no understanding of.)
OK, but the standard view of classical theology is that God isn't made of anything. God is not a material being that could be located or measured.
The standard view is that God is existence itself. Existence is the bedrock thing that there must be. You can't have something that pre-existed existence, because that would mean it existed before existence. Therefore, there can by definition be nothing prior to God, either temporally or essentially.