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God can do anything, therefore he can divest himself of his omnipotence if he so wishes. And one way to do that would be to create a thing too heavy f...
January 29, 2021 at 03:14
Just a bunch of assertions. I am not ignoring logic, but using it. See above.
January 29, 2021 at 03:09
These are epistemic questions that don't directly bear on the issue at hand. But I can know that an omnipotent being exists by means of ratiocination....
January 29, 2021 at 02:05
Because he's being omnipotent at the same time. Only an omnipotent being can be omnipotent 'and' not-omnipotent at the same time. So if I encounter a ...
January 29, 2021 at 01:49
Yes, that's really no harder than making a square circle or a married unmarried man, so I am sure he can make himself both of those.
January 29, 2021 at 01:47
I was trying to think of an example of something logical and illogical, just for the purposes of illustration. Given God can do anything, God can make...
January 29, 2021 at 01:45
On the contrary, it tells us what goodness is - it is something like 'having a quality that God values you having" or some such. Note, when we say 'to...
January 29, 2021 at 01:33
Yes. That's a contradiction of course. But he can do those.
January 29, 2021 at 01:30
I don't see that at all. Being all powerful means being able to do anything. How does talking about what such a being has actually done or is doing or...
January 29, 2021 at 01:15
You're just expressing your disbelief in God. That's fine, but irrelevant. What I am doing is exploring what it means to be all powerful. If one wants...
January 29, 2021 at 01:06
Not sure I see the point yet. To be able to do anything, God would have to be able to determine the content - and indeed, existence - of morality. If ...
January 29, 2021 at 01:03
I am not sure what you're saying.
January 29, 2021 at 00:46
That seems clearly false. An omnipotent being can do anything. That doesn't mean they do everything. They do what they do. Their omnipotence consists ...
January 29, 2021 at 00:18
You've just told me about some labels and then told me, on the basis of no argument whatsoever, that there is no point in arguing for the view I argue...
January 28, 2021 at 23:59
Not sure what you're on about now. It doesn't really connect to anything I've said. This is a philosophy forum, not a rhetoric forum. Philosophy invol...
January 28, 2021 at 22:33
Because most people do not live morally superlative lives (nor ought they, of course). Kind of obvious. I explained. It's the wordy bit that followed-...
January 28, 2021 at 22:26
Sorry, but no. You are free, of course, to ignore this reply. But you quoted me and then said "I have NO comment.." which implies that you think that ...
January 28, 2021 at 22:03
I would like to be able to convince people of its soundness. But my priority is to find out whether it actually is sound. After all, it is irresponsib...
January 28, 2021 at 21:43
I don't see how you get to that conclusion. First, you need to be more than merely well-behaved. Being well-behaved is morally required, not morally s...
January 28, 2021 at 21:35
Right, so you're not talking about God at all. By 'God' you mean 'a necessary existent' and not someone who can do anything. I think it's fair if I pu...
January 28, 2021 at 02:19
No doubt you will once more insist that you mean an 'omnipotent being', but that by 'omnipotent' you mean 'bound by logic'. All I can do when it comes...
January 28, 2021 at 01:22
Forget me - my position is consistent, and I've now explained to you at length how it is consistent, and explained what function the laws of logic per...
January 28, 2021 at 01:08
I think you're making the same mistake, that is you're conflating having an ability with exercising it. I can do X, does not mean I 'am' doing X. God ...
January 27, 2021 at 23:54
No, God can create such a creature. But if he did, he wouldn't be God anymore. God can divest himself of omnipotence if he so wishes. He wouldn't be o...
January 27, 2021 at 22:08
I mean, imagine a tree falls on me and pins me to the ground. Well, that's cost me some abilities - I now can't get up. If Baraa comes up to me and po...
January 27, 2021 at 22:05
Maybe, but that's beside the point, for if I turn out to be a necessary existent then I would lack a power. I currently believe - perhaps mistakenly -...
January 27, 2021 at 22:01
So, just to be clear, by 'absolute' you mean 'exists necessarily' yes? So you're saying that the definition of God is 'a being who exists of necessity...
January 27, 2021 at 21:58
No, completely wrong. Look, you're the one who doesn't really respect logic, for I have used logic to refute your position and suddenly you don't care...
January 27, 2021 at 21:46
Not pointless, you've just been decisively refuted, yes? Am I wrong in saying that to get from 'contingent things exist' to 'there is a necesary exist...
January 27, 2021 at 21:29
I don't follow you. To be omnipotent is to be all powerful. So you can't be omnipotent 'and' constrained. For those constraints operate as limits on o...
January 27, 2021 at 21:18
The better you behave the more undeserved the suffering you undergo becomes and the more deserving of pleasure you become. There's the desert of pleas...
January 27, 2021 at 20:53
Er, that's what I'm doing. Arguments 'are' justifications. But thanks. Oh, and you don't have to convince people - something doesn't become true just ...
January 27, 2021 at 20:18
That doesn't respond to my argument. All you've done is insist that omnipotence involves being bound by the laws of logic. No it doesn't, as logic its...
January 27, 2021 at 03:08
Because I'm right, yes, and thus deserve a good time? Thank you, I agree entirely and to that end I am off to a bar to drink beer, which I have found ...
January 27, 2021 at 02:40
Yes, via my faculty of reason. As I explained above.
January 27, 2021 at 02:20
No, it's a conceptual truth that God is omnipotent. Omnipotence means all powerful, yes? How is a god who is bound by laws more powerful than one who ...
January 27, 2021 at 02:13
Well "God is all possibility, even the possibility to not exist" sounds incoherent. What does it mean to say God 'is' all possibility? It's a category...
January 27, 2021 at 01:54
What do you say to my claim that if a necessary existent exists, then God doesn't? If a necessary existent exists and is God, then God can't not exist...
January 27, 2021 at 01:46
Yes, that isn't a definition of time. Time consists of the properties of pastness, presentness and futurity. Some would add that it must also include ...
January 27, 2021 at 00:17
Thank you for suggesting I read Meister Eckhart and that his ideas are similar to mine. I have had a cursory look at Eckhart's views - I must say that...
January 26, 2021 at 23:33
I don't think you know what an argument is or what poetry is. You're correct, though, that I have not made an argument for God's existence as this thr...
January 26, 2021 at 22:56
Not really. I just see people introducing necessity where there is none. Let's say that John is a bachelor. Does that mean that John is incapable of h...
January 26, 2021 at 22:48
There seems to me to be nothing inconsistent in the idea of a being who is all powerful and also perfectly good. For being perfectly good does not mea...
January 26, 2021 at 21:14
Yes, all of whom have been born. Yes, not everyone who suffers comes thereby to deserve pleasure. This is because some of the suffering we undergo we ...
January 26, 2021 at 21:05
That makes no sense.
January 26, 2021 at 20:12
I don't follow you. You're not engaging with the argument, it seems to me. You're just expressing a confused view. For example, who here is 'taking an...
January 26, 2021 at 20:11
God does exist, but he'll only tell you he does if you listen to him. That is, you have first to undertake to listen to reason, and then and only then...
January 26, 2021 at 03:38
I am denying that you contradicted me
January 26, 2021 at 02:54
No, what possible world semantics gives us is another way to say the same thing. So not 'no', but 'here's another way to express the same concept'. An...
January 26, 2021 at 02:44
Exists contingently means 'exists but did not have to exist' and exists necessarily means 'exists and cannot not exist'. (I think that's how Avicenna ...
January 26, 2021 at 02:36