Posted: Apr 25, 2012 11:44 am
CookieJon wrote:Hnau von Thulcandra wrote:Well I disagree with your 3a. There are plenty of things which are good and yet not part of God's nature. For example, hope is a virtue for humans, but God who knows the future perfectly is not able to hope.
...which means you must also disagree with 2. He's hardly omnipotent if he is not able to hope.
Unless (like the Christians' "good") you define "omnipotent" as "able to do that which he is able to do", rendering the term meaningless.
He'd also have to reject (3), that "Goodness" is defined as god's nature, which means that goodness is something external to god.