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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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-...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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