Omniscience: A thought experiment

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Omniscience and omnipotence are such childish claims.

Can you picture this conversation between children?

"My hero is really powerful!"

"How powerful?"

"Like, so powerful! He made the whole world!"

"Wow! The whole world? What else can he do?.

"Erm... he can travel in time!"

"Cool! Well my super hero can do all that, and he made the whole universe!"

"He did? Well... my super hero made your super hero! In fact... my super hero can do anything! Beat that! And he knows everything!"


Even if "God" made the universe, it does not follow that he can do "anything". Nor does it follow that he knows everything. They are ridiculous claims plastered on to a being whose merest existence cannot be demonstrated in the first place, and who is defined in such a way that we can know nothing about him.

The fact that I'm saying "him", because the bible gives God a human male gender, is a bit if a giveaway. Oh, and lots of human emotions. And he walked on the earth like a human. He used to do magic tricks, but not so much recently.