> -----Original Message----- > From: David Silberstein [mailto:davids at kithrup.com] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 16:25 > To: Draegara List > Subject: Re: God's rocks (was: Re: Good books generally) > > > 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. > > I figure that God can certainly create such a force. Being omnipotent means having the not to. W