RE: Credible/Honest Apologetics?
July 22, 2022 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm by R00tKiT.)
(July 22, 2022 at 12:21 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(July 21, 2022 at 1:40 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: The statement " can only do what it always knew it was going to do" is not problematic, and doesn't entail a contradiction with omnipotence, because God doesn't change His intention (because he's omniscient, we only change our mind when we are presented with new information/see the information from a new perspective, but God always has full information and knows all possible perspectives, so he never needs to change his decisions).
I can see why you consider that a good counter, but a fully omniscient being can't even change its mind about which finger to wiggle, that is, it can't even change its mind just to see if it can change its mind. It can't, not even for the most trivial of actions for which information makes no difference. It may not need to change its decisions, but it also can't change its decisions.
In order for you to prove that this is indeed a contradiction, you have to prove that the action "changing one's mind" is logically possible in the case of an omnipotent+omniscient being. And in fact, it's not.
If such a being decides to do A, then A becomes necessary, there is no possible world where A doesn't happen at some point. With this in mind, a deity not being able to avoid A after their decision is made, is not a problem, since it's not logically possible for A to not happen.
And it's not a threat to omnipotence to not be capable of doing the logically impossible.