Problem with Gods' omnipotence
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- Created on: 11-04-17 14:59
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- Problem with Gods' omnipotence
- Defintion a problem
- Predestination
- Process theodicy
- A theory that was created by A.N. Whitehead and developed by David Griffin
- States that God is not the creator of the world & is not omnipotent.
- God is bound by the laws of nature just like humans and co-exists with us but is not excluded from it
- A theory that was created by A.N. Whitehead and developed by David Griffin
- Can God do the logically impossible?
- 1. Can God make square circle
- Aquinas: No a square circle and a rock too heavy for God to lift - Still means God is omnipotent
- Descartes: Yes God CAN make the logically impossible - even if it doesn't make sense to us - that's true omnipotence
- 2. Can God make a stone too heavy for him to lift?
- 1. Can God make square circle
- Ontological argument
- Descartes
- Kant argued against Descartes
- Descartes
- Richard Dawkins
- Omnipotence and omniscience are contradicting
- If God knows the future and cannot change it, he is not omnipotent
- If he sees the future but changes it - he is not omniscience
- Via negativa: argue against it - not an issue
- If he sees the future but changes it - he is not omniscience
- If God knows the future and cannot change it, he is not omnipotent
- Omnipotence and omniscience are contradicting
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