Re: problem of evil - to clear things up

In talk.atheism Damien Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "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."

What you say is true, but that doesn't solve the problem that
it's the BELIEVERS that defined god in a logically impossible way.
You cannot have a being with the three omni's (omnibenevolent,
omniscient, and omnipotent) with the universe the way it is, anymore
than you can say you have a round square while attempting to speak
English.

If theists would back down their definition of God to a slightly less
extreme one, this problem would go away.