RE: Time to embrace Islam!
December 16, 2019 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 12:50 pm by R00tKiT.)
(December 16, 2019 at 12:17 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's only a logical impossibility because of the omniscience. And that's why the idea of an omniscient being with free will is incoherent. A being that can't change its mind does not have free will, by definition.
You don't get it pal. It's not a problem that changing its mind is a logical impossibility. There is no reductio ad absurdum here to allow you to refute such a deity.
It's the same problem with "why can't god create a rock he cannot lift". the possibility of "A rock he cannot lift" already contradicts omnipotence, it's a poisonous vacuous question.
You suppose that an omniscient deity should be capable of changing its mind, that's where the fallacy lies, because it contradicts the very definition of omniscience.
You're basically saying "Why can't an omniscient god with perfect knowledge who knows the plan ahead of time and is perfectly certain of its execution change the plan ?". Changing one's mind is a negative property you want to add to a being with already perfect positive properties.
God cannot for example end his existence, cannot disable one of his properties, etc. But none of that contradicts his existence.
Reductio ad absurdum is obtained by obtaining an absurd consequence, and not by imposing two contradictory concepts from the beginning.
