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Old Nov 19, 2006, 05:32 PM
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can god make

p = not p?

can he make

good become evil

evil become good

are things evil because god hates them
or does he hate them because they are evil

could god have made it the case that
the morally obligatory thing to do
is to torture innocent babies for fun?

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i don't understand why someone would choose to say 'yeah' to all of that... i don't understand how saying 'no' is limiting god (in fact) rather than limiting superflous language about him.

the greatest possible being... what more could you ask for?

contradictions cannot be the case, however.

if you want god to exist then you better not endorse contradictions in the way you define him

if you believe god does exist then his nature will be such where he doesn't contain any contradictions

what good would the greatest impossible being be?

PS... One can use the 'greatest possible being but can't do things that are impossible' line as a response to the problem of evil too so it can multi task.

Also... I'm fairly sure that some church doctrine (catholic I think) and maybe others... Some church theologians decided that this conception of God was the least objectionable solution to the problem of evil and they officially state something to the effect of god being the greatest POSSIBLE being...