RE: Are miracles evidence of the existence of God?
July 24, 2020 at 7:02 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2020 at 7:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
How would a god even know what it could and couldn't do? I don't mean to suggest that it's impossible to know, but working out the details can be illustrative. We learn what we can and cant do by trying and succeeding, or failing. How would a god learn that it could destroy a world, or couldn't, outside of trying it out? Maybe god is learning on the job.
If we add personality traits to the mix, if we imagine god is generally good in the sense that goofy apes like us use the term, then it stands to reason that there would be some situations involving power and the exploration of power that are relatable to us. A god might wonder whether it could do a thing, generally assume it's capable of doing the thing, but be unwilling to explore that intuition to determine whether or not it qualifies as knowledge. Omnibenevolence necessarily constrains omniscience and omnipotence. There must be things about such a god that even that god doesn't know, and is incapable of exploring for some reason or no reason at all.
If we add personality traits to the mix, if we imagine god is generally good in the sense that goofy apes like us use the term, then it stands to reason that there would be some situations involving power and the exploration of power that are relatable to us. A god might wonder whether it could do a thing, generally assume it's capable of doing the thing, but be unwilling to explore that intuition to determine whether or not it qualifies as knowledge. Omnibenevolence necessarily constrains omniscience and omnipotence. There must be things about such a god that even that god doesn't know, and is incapable of exploring for some reason or no reason at all.
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