(April 18, 2012 at 12:58 am)genkaus Wrote:(April 18, 2012 at 12:48 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: From all my years as a theist, I'd say no. I'm guessing you'd say he's not then all-powerful, and I would respond that he's only all-powerful as is logically possible.
Actually, I was gonna say:
Then his nature is determined by something else then - some even greater standard?
Perhaps his nature nature is necessary, just like his existence is? I'm not sure how a real theist might respond to that, but I see your point.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).