RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
September 10, 2019 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 8:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If they argue from something other than special revelation then they aren’t arguing for that god of the philosophers at all.
It’s a bait and switch.
Not that Good Theologians ™ won’t do that. It’s a job, not an honorific. Good Theology is self defining by the criteria of that theology. Internal consistency is the metric....and consistency with absurd assumptions is still consistency.
That’s how guys like St Tom ended up wasting their lives trying to count angels on the head of a pin.
It’s a bait and switch.
Not that Good Theologians ™ won’t do that. It’s a job, not an honorific. Good Theology is self defining by the criteria of that theology. Internal consistency is the metric....and consistency with absurd assumptions is still consistency.
That’s how guys like St Tom ended up wasting their lives trying to count angels on the head of a pin.
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