(March 14, 2021 at 7:47 pm)Seax Wrote:(March 14, 2021 at 7:04 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Because he has no choice in the matter.
The three fundamental laws of logic, (identity, non-contradicition, excluded middle), hold for god as much as the rest of us.
Unless you are about to deny those. That might at least give rise to a diverting discussion for a while, but likely unproductive for you.
I'm not sure I understand.
It seems to me that people who assume a pantheistic God would think like people aren't yet taking the "pan" part of the definition seriously enough.
A pantheistic God, if I'm understanding right, includes everything in the universe, and is coterminous with the universe. This is different from the standard Catholic God, who includes everything in the universe... plus infinity.
So if God includes everything in the universe, it doesn't think about objects in the same way that people do.
For example, if a person knows something, there are two separate items: the knower and the known. If I know your phone number, that's two things. I could forget your phone number, but it would still exist independently from me.
God, on the other hand, includes the phone number and everything else within himself. He can't be separated from it. This is what "omniscient" means -- that everything known or knowable is a part of God. If God doesn't know something, it doesn't exist.
So I think it would work the same way for thinking. There is not (1) a thinker and (2) an object of thought. If I'm thinking about the revocation of the edict of Nantes, that's two things: me and the historical event. But a pantheistic or Catholic God includes that and every other historical event within itself. Forgetting, or thinking wrongly, etc., is not possible. So that's fundamentally different from the way people think, I think.