(December 16, 2019 at 12:17 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Welcome, NightHawk!
(December 16, 2019 at 10:40 am)Klorophyll Wrote: A deity doesn't change its mind by definition, everything is "figured out" from the first shot. This fallacy is why people think foreknowledge implies coercion.
Saying "not being able to change its mind" is perfectly equivalent to saying "God cannot make 1+1=3". Both are complete logical impossibilities and have nothing to do with omniscience.
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.
And it's also why omniscidnce and omnipotence are mutually exclusive. If you're all knowing you have no power, because you will know ahead of time every action taken, including your own. In fact omniscience effectively renders a being powerless, as they have only a single path they must travel, no choices.
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