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Old 01-09-2006, 08:15 PM
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Default Re: Omnipotence Doesn\'t Imply Seeing The Future.

David, some people think an omnipotent God could make a stone too big for him to lift. These people chalk it up to mystery as to how this is possible. These people think God can make logical impossibilities be true and even that he can be a logical impossibility himself. For these people omnipotence really means you have the power to see the future even if seeing the future is impossible.

However, more reasonable people take omnipotence to mean God can do everything that is possible. If it is possible to have the power of knowing the future then God has that power. If it is not possible then God does not have that power.

So David, do you think knowing the future is possible? If you think it is possible then this is inconsistent with the title of your post. Omnipotence itself doesn't imply seeing the future; but omnipotence in a world where seeing the future is possible entails knowledge of the future in the omnipotent thing.
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