RE: A discussion with tack
June 13, 2011 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2011 at 11:20 pm by Ryft.)
(June 13, 2011 at 12:49 am)eric209 Wrote: I'm pretty sure that you must have a confused apologetic understanding of God ... The Bible doesn't limit God's power to [the] logically possible.
I know this is tautological but at times it needs to be stressed because for some reason it gets forgotten. When it is said that God is omnipotent it is meant that he has "the power to do anything that power can do." The logically impossible is not subject to power; that is, if the logically impossible could be become possible given sufficient power, then it was never logically impossible to begin with but merely difficult. The logically impossible remains impossible regardless of how much power might be applied. It is definitional.
To suggest that literally nothing is impossible given sufficient power (omnipotence) is to toss the laws of logic straight out the window; in other words, it suggests that there is no such thing as the logically impossible—that things like square circles are actually possible but just really, really difficult—which is self-defeating and absurd. People who take this approach with an omnipotence paradox end up proving too much, for by their very own argument the paradox vanishes! See my response to Rayaan in the thread "Musings about omnipotence and perfection." [1]
(June 13, 2011 at 12:49 am)eric209 Wrote: The very nature of resurrection is illogical.
A fascinating claim. Now prove it.
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[1] Ryft (2011, February 8). "Musings about omnipotence and perfection," Msg. #29.
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