[Piers]

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There's the possibility that the way we see time is flawed

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Yo!

I know someone would eventually stop definition chopping and say something interesting. Although I think this misses the point.

I would say that time is a human construction we superimpose on the universe to aid understanding. Rather than say it’s flawed, say at some point predictive models that use it will start to produce incorrect results. However I do believe that the key point is that we do appear to observe some pattern to consequential actions.

Now back to this omnipotent/God/time thing.

You can create a model with an object called God with an omnipotent property. You can even set up the definitions so that they are inherently inconsistent. This leaves to three possible conclusions.

1) Logic does not necessary hold in my model.
2) My model does not make sense.
3) Opps! I made a mistake.

Another option is to assume that we have an entity called God that’s really powerful. Lets call him omnipotent. Now what does omnipotent mean? Well just look at what God can do, and that will give us our definition. If we can show God can do something then that is something an omnipotent being can do, if we cannot show God can do something, then we cannot yet say that is something an omnipotent being can do.

How do we tell what a fictional entity can and cannot do. Well obviously we read the book and that will tell us.

Now take the bible (or other story that can define a God) to be a set of axioms, we can read it and see what God can and cannot do. Does the bible say God can accurately predict the future? Does the bible claim that God can guarantee his own predictions? Does the bible say that God exists in all time at the same time? etc.

The key point here is that you are not just inventing an entity and a property and combining them as some sort of thought experiment. Instead you are researching into what God has been recoded as doing, and building up a picture of his abilities. This process I believe would lead to a much more convincing definition of the omnipotent property as applied to an ALMIGHTY being.