On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Gomi no Sensei wrote: > >On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> A different paradox: Is God powerful enough to destroy himself? > >Is that a suitable measure of power, considering even the earth's >meanest creatures possess it? It's paradoxical in sense of "power" meaning not just the ability to destroy things, but the ability to resist destruction. But we could rephrase it as: Can God create an entity which could in turn destroy God? One of the things that bothers me about "omnipotence" is that it implys that "power" is somehow sufficient to change reality in ways that are autocontradictory. So: Could God cause 1 to be equal to 2? Could God create a square circle? Could God disprove Goedel's Theorem by proving that all true statements are provable & all false statements are disprovable? "Omnipotence", as well as the other "Omnis" may be chimerical & ultimately impossible concepts.