(July 25, 2022 at 10:41 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(July 25, 2022 at 10:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Nah...it is just one of those paradoxes of theism than isn't worth debating, i.e. is a Creator god in any way dependant on His creation? What is a lover without his beloved?
In other words, it's prima facie incoherent. And that's how it stays unless you go with the copout that "It's a mystery." Yeah. Tell me again about how Christianity restores intelligibility to the universe.
My point was that such paradoxes are not worth debating because there are prior assumptions. K is making a theological case based on a certain interpretation of time. Change that and the theology changes. It seems that many "answers" are really just stories that fit predetermined understanding about how the word works. Like the question ealier about "When did God create time?" Paradoxes IMHO generally mean you're asking the wrong question. The paradox arises because the presumed relationiship between Creator and creation is that of a Hegelian dialectic that is more semantic in nature than causal.
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