(December 13, 2024 at 2:02 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(December 13, 2024 at 1:21 pm)Sheldon Wrote: There is the paradox of free will of course, or theological fatalism, but this might also apply to any deity itself, if it was omniscient it must necessarily know the future exactly as it will happen, or put a limit on it's knowledge. If it knew the future exactly as it would happen, then it could not change it, hence it would have no autonomy, let alone be omnipotent.
Aquinas has suggested that to ascribe the ability to do the impossible to omnipotence is an error in conception,
That depends how you conceive omnipotence, I don't believe it is possible, so I don't need to rationalise it.
Quote:it doesn't immediately seem unreasonable to suggest that the very concept of a triangle is that it does not have four sides, and that suggesting that it could have four sides is to abuse reason and the very concept itself. Do you disagree?
No of course not, but then this very concisely exposes the contradiction in the notion of literarily limitless power. Though this has moved on from the original point, about a deity creating everything, then granting one species of evolved apes free will, then having no culpability for their actions.
