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.
    • omnipotence
      • 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
      • 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 4: Absolutely omnipotent beings can break necessary truths, but logic can't be changed so God can't be omnipotent.

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