RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
December 13, 2024 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2024 at 6:06 pm by Angrboda.)
(December 13, 2024 at 4:06 pm)Sheldon Wrote:(December 13, 2024 at 2:02 pm)Angrboda Wrote: 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.
Generally speaking, theologians don't define or describe omnipotence as "limitless power," though some people may colloquially do so. The principle of charity obligates you to respond to the strongest version of an argument, to steelman it.
Incidentally, your objection cuts both ways. If Omnipotence implies being able to do the impossible, then pointing out something impossible isn't an argument against him as he is not bound by the law of noncontradiction, being limitless.
It sounds to me like you want to have your cake and eat it, too.
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