The logical consequences of omnipotence

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No, mainstream Christianity does no such thing. Mainstream Christianity maintains that God is all powerful and can do anything logical. God cannot do the illogical. This is theology 101. And also logic 101. It's an embarrassing point made by the naïve.

Hoo boy! God cannot do the illogical? He does it all the time!

Like creating a species with free will but no knowledge of good and evil, and plonking them down right next to a tree he doesn't want them to eat from. And then creating a shit-stirring snake to go hang out on the tree for no good reason. And then getting surprised when some fruit gets nommed, despite the fact that he knew ahead of time what was going to happen.

Or creating that species in the first place, given he gave them the edict to "be fruitful and multiply" in a space that was entirely limited and featured no death.

Or his timeless, endless grudge against every human on the planet for the sins of long, long dead ancestors that, I would submit, wasn't that heinous to begin with.

Or a laundry list of others! God does weird, illogical stuff a whole bunch, actually. So if god can do anything logical, and is pretty free with the illogical stuff despite the fervent cries of believers... then isn't it fair to say he's omnipotent?

Oh, and I wouldn't go about saying this is logic 101 either, dude. It may be theology 101, but none of this is logical to an atheist, because we find the very concept somewhat laughable. It might be intuitive to you, with your willingness to defend this stuff, but to me the bible is damn near incomprehensible, because unlike you I'm not willing to see past the contradictions.