RE: Is god bound by logic?
April 29, 2012 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2012 at 6:30 pm by tryblinking.)
logic > god
Ah, Lord God! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
—Jeremiah 32:17
That means any task can be done, which would includes setting himself an impossible task. Obviously, that breaks logic. So, he couldn't create a stone so large he couldn't lift it, as a physical example. Could he make a 4-sided triangle. Could end his existence, or make 5 equals of himself.
More fundamentally, he cannot choose to exist and not exist at the same time. That breaks logic, hence ^.
he also can choose to forget things permanently:
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
—Isaiah 43:25
for a deity advertised as constantly consistent and unchanging, that's a logical contradiction right there.
Ah, Lord God! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
—Jeremiah 32:17
That means any task can be done, which would includes setting himself an impossible task. Obviously, that breaks logic. So, he couldn't create a stone so large he couldn't lift it, as a physical example. Could he make a 4-sided triangle. Could end his existence, or make 5 equals of himself.
More fundamentally, he cannot choose to exist and not exist at the same time. That breaks logic, hence ^.
he also can choose to forget things permanently:
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
—Isaiah 43:25
for a deity advertised as constantly consistent and unchanging, that's a logical contradiction right there.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 1 Corinthians 13:11
