Re: problem of evil - to clear things up

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:37:14 GMT, "Damien Stanton"
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>"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."

It's one of the many paradoxes introduced by making something
infinite.

"Omni-" means _all_. In otherwords everything. It does NOT mean
"everything that is logically possible" because it is unqualified.

When you introduce the omni-whatever attributes your nonsense
questions are no longer nonsense but a consequence of your own claim.

It is cheating to resolve the problems by redefining the word after
the event.

>"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".
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>> 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.
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