Posted: Sep 12, 2017 9:38 pm
Wortfish wrote:That is an interesting point you raise. I think it can be argued that establishing a functioning system does involve constraining one's powers, and freedom of action, as a consequence.
Well you could argue that but, it would be illogical and stupid. After all, an omnipotent being could, by dint of being omnipotent, create such a system and not be constrained by it in anyway.
Wortfish wrote: The properties and maintenance of the system impose their own criteria that must be followed.
Not by an omnipotent being.
So the deity you're trying to define, clearly isn't omnipotent. Whilst this does resolve a lot of issues (why doesn't this deity divert X disaster/basically does fuck all), it also raises issues about how your definition is different to that of other theists. Which definition are we supposed to work to?
Basically.
Stop squirming.
