(June 11, 2010 at 2:55 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 11, 2010 at 2:13 pm)Caecilian Wrote: So fr0d0 seems to think the following:Well that would be wrong. But then you insist on looking at something logical illogically, I don't know why.
1. God is omnipotent.
and
2. God cannot do various things (lie, commit evil) that humans can do.
The statement is fallatious.
Omnipotent, all powerful (from the Latin: Omni Potens: "all power") - is the draining of/ the taking away of power also power? It seems you require this to be so. But that doesn't make it so does it?
So... an all powerful being can only be powerful, and not anti powerful, as that would be contradictory. If you care to think about the construct of the god idea you may notice that it is entirely positive. Obviously omnimax does not entail self destruction.
As far as I can tell, this is gibberish. I really have no idea at all what most of this is supposed to mean, if anything.
But then, on reflection, the whole concept of omnipotence may be gibberish too. Perhaps any definition of omnipotence turns out to be self-contradictory.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche