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Let's simplify this and just call it a "question:"Did you understand the article? It clearly says that resolution of a paradox takes one of three forms (none of which actually solve the paradox):
1. Impossibility, i.e. the paradoxical thing cannot exist.
2. Accept that it's just nonsense.
3. Ignore it.
Which one do you chose as resolution of God's omnipotence?
... Such an elaborately supported explanation! Such eloquence, too!Question: Can God make a rock so heavy He can't lift it?
Answer: Yes.
True, but while acknowledging that, we all have lives to lead in societies built on and around reified mental constructs. I think the important thing is to recognise the benefits and problems with these intuitive and convenient fictions. Some, like free will, have an emotional dark side in society.Its all quite amusing when one bothers to observe that its actually a mind doing the conceptualising all of: a deterministic world, free will and subjective experiences of decision making, in the first place!
Its all about a mind trying to rationalise how it itself, is capable of considering mutual exclusivity amongst these notions, even though that mind is obviously capable of conceiving a world where they all 'exist' and overlap simultaneously ... because that's actually exactly how that mind thinks!
No matter how hard we try, we cannot step outside of our own minds .. even by 'creating' omnipotent entities (using our subjective free will)!
Even referencing a objective scientific (QM) viewpoint, we have no idea where strict determinism breaks down .. so discussing what fundamental randomness does to these issues is pretty well irrelevant also.
So your postI became a Christian first then some months later became a creationist, but I agonized over the two and tried to marry them together like a lot of people here do. It doesn't work. You cannot believe God's word is true as written and also believe in evolution. Before that I believed in the whole story of evolution, which has to be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated. Not that I expect you to understand as you are blind to the supernatural and it is as foolishness to you.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
This verse is not an insult it is simply the plain truth. I said creation was foolishness myself some years before I became a Christian. I was never an atheist but more an agnostic.
As I have said here before, it's completely useless to argue with someone blind to the supernatural and to God because nothing can come out of it. Debating science about it is also foolishness because science only looks at the physical. Would science agree that a man can be born of a virgin, walk on water and raise again? No, they are oil and water. There is no physical evidence or back up for miracles, they are discerned only through the Spirit.
was misleading. You came to creationism due to a religious a priori belief. Nice to have seen this settled.*waves*
Non-christian evolutionist of 25 years who became a Christian and then a creationist. Trust me we exist.
Man is made up of body, soul, and spirit.So your post was misleading. You came to creationism due to a religious a priori belief. Nice to have seen this settled.
By flowering, we self-actualize.Man is made up of body, soul, and spirit.
The spirit is fed by the word of God and grows in faith.
Roman 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
What you call a "religious a priori belief" is, in fact, the Holy Spirit enlightening her.
Do you believe this New Age stuff? if not, mind if I don't either?If you have never experienced this paradigm shift on a cosmic scale, it can be difficult to exist.
We must ground ourselves and recreate others. The grid is approaching a tipping point. This vision quest never ends.
Chi is taught as universal energy that can be focused through our chakras.Amen!
Ah believe it all!
Ahm a believer now!
Ah've seen the light!
I'm a fan of all human thinking!I wasn't aware that you were a fan of the New Age Movement.
Right -- and I'm Genghis Khan.I'm a fan of all human thinking!
Such a Herbert outlook!
Call it what you like it's still a paradox.Let's simplify this and just call it a "question:"
Looks like you've chosen option 2 (accept that the paradox is nonsense) or perhaps God is not omnipotent.Question: Can God make a rock so heavy He can't lift it?
Answer: Yes.
along with my 'Herbert' .. therewith are two glorious demonstrations of human thinking!It's demonic subterfuge.
I can do that -- my pastor does!(accept that the paradox is nonsense)
Of which you claim to be a fan of, correct?.. and do you remember this Gengis?:
along with my 'Herbert' .. therewith are two glorious demonstrations of human thinking!
What I have objective evidence of, is that it takes a human thinking mind for them (and you) to describe their perceptions of me .. (and my mind, in order to describe my perceptions of them). Thinking that they exist independently (eg: as 'fans') from any of those minds, is just a belief.Is that how you describe your fans?
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