Posted: Dec 11, 2013 11:53 pm
Skinny Puppy wrote:You can protest all you want about the logic of it or how it is the definition, but since God can do anything and "anything" includes by definition "The ability to change the absolute while retaining its absolutism."
This is logically inconsistent because it renders all concepts essentially meaningless - the concept of the 'absolute' as that which is absolutely definite and completely unquestionable always applies unless God decides it doesn't. The point of this brand of apologetics is ultimately to exempt God from any and all criticism by declaring him the most marvellously awesomely magnificently wonderfully amazingly fabulously all-powerful being like evah!. Of course, in the terse tabanacular of the pious that's usually boiled down to blandishments like 'God is unfathomable' or 'unknowable.' A handy get out wouldn't you say?