Timeline for Does God’s omnipotence lead directly to contradictions regarding God’s capabilities?
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 10:30 | comment | added | Cody Gray | Erm, it really doesn't require that much moral groundwork. You only need to argue that such a God gives us free will. Meaning that he could intervene and end suffering, but he chooses not to because he gives us free will. Sure, it's a pretty dogmatic insistence upon a singular philosophical principle, but I suppose God is a Kantian. :-) | |
| Jun 13, 2011 at 21:38 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | I think you are attempting to say much more than the space an answer to this question allows. You've asserted a great deal about religious belief that simply is not part of the original question or commonly understood. Attempting to justify the statement, "It is a God that has the power to end suffering, yet does not," probably requires more groundwork than would be appropriate in an answer to a tangentially related question. | |
| Jun 13, 2011 at 21:12 | comment | added | Jez | I don't think God destroying himself is a problem; the answer would be "yes, he can." Does omnipotence imply indestructibility? | |
| Jun 13, 2011 at 21:09 | comment | added | user20 | While the concept of God, incorporeal, lifting things may be absurd, the example Bob gives of God destroying himself is not. That's not a linguistic problem, nor is it logically impossible unless you make a number of assumptions. | |
| Jun 13, 2011 at 21:04 | history | answered | Jez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |