(October 12, 2013 at 8:45 am)enrico Wrote: Are you saying that God once incarnate could not do whatever he-she like?I meant exactly what I said.
How would you know?
The traditional notion of a god as all-powerful and all-knowing and immortal would make that god supernatural- therefore unstudyable by the scientific method, which relies on natural restraints to limit hypotheses and provide experimental direction. If a god could actually do anything, it would necessarily be outside of the purview of science. If a god became incarnate- that is, in a physical body- it would seem that it would be bound by the limitations of bodies as we know them, since all bodies observed by the scientific method to date have not been incarnate gods and have been subject to natural phenomena. If the body was merely a puppet of a supernatural being, then all bets would be off, because, again, the supernatural being would be, by definition, outside of natural laws.
So it's a pointless thing to discuss, because when you claim a god is supernatural, asking someone to study it using the scientific method is farcical.