RE: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
August 7, 2024 at 2:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2024 at 2:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Constraints of the game, really. Any logical definition of omnipotence could not include the ability to do the impossible - that would be illogical. Plantinga doesn't make this demand on omnipotence or a god and his argument would logically fail if he did. You do. Honestly.....imo, so do christians at large. They very much want their god to be capable of doing impossible things. They claim it can. That's what it means for something to be a miracle or a mystery. Doing the impossible just proves that god is super duper giga powerful!
Hell, even in the kca, they make such a demand. That their silly god is somehow a first cause candidate. That all the stuff that predates it, and even the creature that created it, are causally dependent on it, somehow, instead of the other way around which is the straightforward and logical inference to make about that particular causal chain. We're gods cause, so unless some really funky shit is going on in the universe, it can't be ours. Nevermind who or what is the first cause of the universe, if anything - because this shit is doa at a level faaaar removed from that.
Hell, even in the kca, they make such a demand. That their silly god is somehow a first cause candidate. That all the stuff that predates it, and even the creature that created it, are causally dependent on it, somehow, instead of the other way around which is the straightforward and logical inference to make about that particular causal chain. We're gods cause, so unless some really funky shit is going on in the universe, it can't be ours. Nevermind who or what is the first cause of the universe, if anything - because this shit is doa at a level faaaar removed from that.
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