Re: problem of evil - to clear things up

"thing" implies logically possible.   It's the "Can god create a rock he
can't lift" problem:  easily resolved by saying that such a rock is a
logical impossibility.  Asking whether God can do X is only a meaningful
question when X denotes a logical possibility, otherwise it is just a
nonsense question, like asking what I said 200 years ago, it doesn't make
any sense.  If I ask, "Can God create a round square?", the answer is not
"No" or "Yes", but rather, "That's a nonsense question, you're not making
any sense."

"Christopher A. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >I don't think omnipotence means the ability to do the logically
impossible.
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> "Omni-" means _everything_.
>
> Not "everything but the logically impossible".
>
> It's the believers' problem for defining it as omnipotent. We didn't
> do that.
>
> And when the paradoxes and impossibilities they introduce get pointed
> out, it is disingenuous to attempt to redefine the word to fit.