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If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?

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If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
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RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off?
January 8, 2024 at 4:05 am
(January 8, 2024 at 3:39 am)Sicnoo0 Wrote:
(January 8, 2024 at 3:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I reject the premise as incoherent. God, as commonly understood, is a logical impossibility. Therefore, asking if a logically impossible being could act in logical manner makes no sense.

It isn't that God doesn't exist, it's that God can't exist.

Boru

maybe I shouldn't entertain the hypothetical either, then

How about a modified version of god that lacks any properties that would render it a logical impossibility? What then? Would you entertain the hypothetical in that case? And if so, would you assume - as I would - that this supposed god cannot create a married bachelor, or perform other such logically impossible feats?

My guess is you'd just not even consider it a god anymore at that point if it lacks any properties that would render a god logically impossible

You'd consider such a being to be a simple mortal. And thus, it would obviously follow that he/she/it cannot create a married bachelor

Oh, I can imagine a logically possible god (mythologies are chock-a-block with them) but yes, that god's actions would be logically constrained.

Boru
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RE: If you learned that the god of [insert religion] is real, would all bets be off? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 8, 2024 at 4:05 am

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