RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 29, 2012 at 12:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2012 at 12:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 28, 2012 at 8:02 pm)spockrates Wrote: It seems you have not read what I've said about the difference between inherent and total omniscience, or you don't care to read it, or you don't understand.
OK, please let me ask you this: According to your understanding of omniscience, would you say there is nothing that is impossible for God to know?
It's more likely I dismissed your post as word salad...isn't it Spock? Omniscience is a very difficult word to misinterpret or misuse...you actually have to put effort into it. Inherent omniscience is total, by definition. Inherent doesn't have the ability to qualify the attribute, only the thing that possesses it. Nevertheless, whether this entity's omniscience is inherent doesn't affect our predestined existence a single bit. The particulars of this omniscience, the manner in which it is engaged in, what this entity chooses to know or not now, even whether or not any entity possesses it...none of this solves the problem.
The problem lies in whether or not it is possible to have knowledge of the future Spock. If not, this god is off the hook for torturing ants, but on the hook for gambling with the same. Essentially one simply needs to decide what kind of asshole they feel comfortable bowing to.
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