Omnipotence and Omniscience are Mutually Exclusive

Posted At : April 30, 2008 12:43 PM | Posted By : Admin
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It is impossible to have an omnipotent, (all powerful) omniscient (all knowing) god.

If your god is omniscient, then he knows everything that has happened and that ever will happen. But if he knows what will happen then he cannot change it, therefore he cannot be omnipotent.

But if he decides to change some future event, then he cannot be omniscient because he did not know the new future before he changed it.

Logic completely destroys god at every turn. It's just so easy. If you ignore logic then you ignore reason and can consider yourself to be willfully ignorant or blatantly irrational.

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Actually, it turns out that omnipotence is a problem all by itself. Go ahead and read about the Omnipotence Paradox on your own.

In general, the religious believer's argument to the paradox goes something like this, "Yeah okay, there are some things that god cannot do, but he is omnipotent anyway. Nah nah."

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How about "I don't know" - is that ok? God may be omnipotent, omniscient, both or neither. I personally think it would be foolish for anyone to say that they DO know, definitively. We don't. We just don't. There is belief, however, that we play a part in something larger than ourselves. Some people don't believe that, and that's ok too. Its all a matter of personal belief.

Davo

# Posted By David | 4/30/08 3:02 PM

This is the way I see it: Can a microbe understand man? Why then, if the God you believe in is capable of creating the universe and all its creatures, do you expect to understand God, for what this Supreme Power is, by simply relying on your reason, your common sense, your human logic? I mean, the difference in intellectual level and any other level between man and God is so much greater than the difference between a microbe and man, that for a microbe to believe it understands man would be far less presumptuous than for man to believe he understands God. You can say I don't understand God, therefore for me there is no God, but just because you don't understand it and you may think it is not reasonable based on human logic it does not mean He does not exist.

# Posted By John | 5/4/08 8:15 PM

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