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Old 01-10-2006, 10:22 PM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: Omnipotence Doesn\'t Imply Seeing The Future.

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chezlaw: If you're omnipotent, the only way to make something you cannot unmake is to devoid yourself of that power. Once you do that, you'll no longer be omnipotent

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I'm not sure what you mean by unmake but if you deny god the ability to do things that reduce his omnipotence then you are denying god's omnipotence.

A coherent meaning of omnipotence such as an omnopiotent being can do anything they want but in making p the case they make ~p impossible, avoids the problem I think.

So god can make the world in 7 days but that entails not making it in 8 days. god can flip a random coin but then cant predict the outcome.

and if god really wants to he can commit deicide.

chez
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