AS PHILOSOPHY - OMNIPOTENCE
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- Descartes: God has the power to do anything describable, including the logically impossible, such as breaking necessary truths.
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- Aquinas believed God's omnipotence didn't apply to everything, only the logically impossible as to break necessary truths would be an oxymoron.
- Savage: It is contradictory as to call something unliftable places a limitation upon an omnipotent being from P1
- Mavrodes: Paradox of the stone. Either god can create a stone he cannot lift or he cannot create a stone he cannot lift
- If God can create a stone he can't lift, there's something he can't do. If he cannot create the stone, there's something he can't do.
- In both instances there is something God cannot do, therefore he can't be omnipotent as he can't do everything.
- Savage: It is contradictory as to call something unliftable places a limitation upon an omnipotent being from P1
- In both instances there is something God cannot do, therefore he can't be omnipotent as he can't do everything.
- If God can create a stone he can't lift, there's something he can't do. If he cannot create the stone, there's something he can't do.
- Objection 1: an omnipotent being should be able to change, however because God is immutable he cant change, so he cannot be omnipotent.
- Objection 2: to sin is to fall short of an action, so a perfect being can't sin. therefore, God can't sin, and so can't be omnipotent.
- Objection 3: Gods greatest act is to have mercy, but he can't create a new world (greater act) therefore he can't be omnipotent.
- Objection 4: Absolutely omnipotent beings can break necessary truths, but logic can't be changed so God can't be omnipotent.
- Objection 3: Gods greatest act is to have mercy, but he can't create a new world (greater act) therefore he can't be omnipotent.
- Objection 2: to sin is to fall short of an action, so a perfect being can't sin. therefore, God can't sin, and so can't be omnipotent.
- Objection 4: Absolutely omnipotent beings can break necessary truths, but logic can't be changed so God can't be omnipotent.
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