(September 18, 2019 at 5:07 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Your argument is a version of the color blind color scientist, Boru.
If god (like our color scientist) knew every bad fact, everything that doing bad entailed (like every color fact, everything that color sight entailed), then by definition it would understand and know the experience of doing bad (or seeing color) regardless of it's (or her) personal inability. Asserting that god knows everything, but that one thing, directly contradicts the setup and creates the dilemma all by it's one-sies.
On a less grand scale, we don't need to be Superman to know what flying through the air with a cape would feel like, either. I'd run with Grands comments on agency, myself.
But the colour-blind scientist doesn't ever have knowledge of the personal experience of seeing red (by definition). You can imagine what it feels like to fly like Superman, but you can't have knowledge of the personal experience of doing so.
I restricted the argument to 'that one thing' because that was the topic. I maintain that to claim God has complete knowledge while being immutable is incoherent - God cannot know the personal experience of God doing anything, not just evil acts.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson