RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 13, 2020 at 7:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2020 at 7:45 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 13, 2020 at 4:14 pm)Objectivist Wrote: No, God does not exist so it can't be anything, contradictory or otherwise. The notion of God is self-contradictory though. God is said to be supernatural. That means it is apart from and above the laws of nature including the Law of Identity. So here we have a notion of an entity which by its nature transcends nature. But if it has a nature, i.e., an identity, then how could it transcend the law of identity. Blank out. I can't believe I once bought into this nonsense.
Are you sure you're reasoning through these terms correctly, using them appropriately, and not inadvertently creating a falsidical?
Personally I've never agreed with the notion of the supernatural; I think the term is often used as a synonym for non-existent. Nevertheless, I do view the notion of God being outside of nature as similar to the way a gamer sits outside the virtual environment he is playing, but can nevertheless interact and have an effect on it. To try to understand the human being by filtering him through "digital laws" of the virtual world is bound to be problematic if not contradictory as well.
