(December 13, 2024 at 10:28 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(December 13, 2024 at 8:15 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Trying to stick within a limited logical possibility we can ask the same questions again. Is it logically possible that god possesses foreknowledge? If it's not..then we've limited omniscience and omnipotence and are even further from the god of magic book. If it is, we have the potency issue all over again within the new boundary conditions. Is a god a prisoner of it's predictions and past statements or predilections? A theologian would tell you no (and magic book provides receipts). This is yet another way that god is limitless...but if isn't, then did it ever possess foreknowledge in the first place, supposing foreknowledge was possible?
This has been an issue for christian apologists for some time, the simple fact of their spilling the ink concedes the apparent contraditions...but once upon a time it was not noticed at all, as people deeply believed in another supernatural whatsit called a fate.
Yes, the old, "if they're innocent then why do they need a lawyer" ploy. Seriously?
Not exactly, no..more that they know there's a problem with this stuff as is so we can see they've put in the work to modify it. There's no "if" they're guilty there...they manifestly are.
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