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Old 11-13-2007, 12:35 PM
mickeyg13 mickeyg13 is offline
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Default Re: Crazy Question about Omnipotence

OK I missed a lot of things while I slept.

First of all, the "2+2=5 for all sufficiently large values of 2" was in fact a joke. However, it's still sort of true vacuously :-P

With regards to omniscience and omnibenevolence, in the hypothetical I wasn't ascribing these properties to the hypothetical God, just omnipotence. You might argue omnipotence implies omniscience, but I think an omnipotent being could choose to make itself omniscient but wouldn't need to. There still would not be a contradiction with the bus though, because it might be that He just doesn't wish to stop it. In other words, my hypothetical doesn't concern the problem of evil (although I think that issue isn't as resolved as some make it, but that's another discussion).
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