On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:48:48PM -0500, John Klein <zarkon at illrepute.org> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > @> > @> > From the point of view of a religious scholar, though, that's not an > @> > @> > acceptable solution; basically, the tension arises from the following set > @> > @> > of statements: > @> > @> I'm not a religious scholar. > @> > @> I want a logical solution to the paradox and I don't care if God > @> > @> dies as a result. > @> > I am perplexed; it seems to me that the paradox only exists if you accept > @> > the existance of God in the first place. > @> Or omnipotence. > Really, and you're contending that something can be omnipotent without > additionally ending up being God? I'd be quite interested to see that one. Sure. Consider an omnipotent Satan. Omnipotent is an attribute that can be attached to just about anything. It's not limited to judeo-christian divinity, except in that judeo-christian divinity is the major source of attempts to resolve the logical contradictions inherent in the concept. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp