RE: If god can't lie, does that mean he can't do everything?
August 27, 2020 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2020 at 11:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If gods power extended to moral value - then he could make lying good and lie. OFC, if gods power extended to moral value, he could make himself bad and lie. The second one seems like a more direct route.
.....but ...
IF omnipotence doesn't include the power to create or overturn necessary truths, then our hypothetical good god could no more make lying good than it could lie.
It's a rare commitment to logic and objectivity within the qualitatively subjective and nihilistic mass of christian belief regarding moral value and possibility. If we approach it consistently, then we can say that a person who believes in those kinds of morals, and that kind of god, can't believe that magic book got it right on that count. Someone scribbled that into the margins. It's a convenient position, especially considering the question at hand. Asserting that god cannot lie, we then expunge any lie we notice god telling as the lie of another.
.....but ...
IF omnipotence doesn't include the power to create or overturn necessary truths, then our hypothetical good god could no more make lying good than it could lie.
It's a rare commitment to logic and objectivity within the qualitatively subjective and nihilistic mass of christian belief regarding moral value and possibility. If we approach it consistently, then we can say that a person who believes in those kinds of morals, and that kind of god, can't believe that magic book got it right on that count. Someone scribbled that into the margins. It's a convenient position, especially considering the question at hand. Asserting that god cannot lie, we then expunge any lie we notice god telling as the lie of another.
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