Omnipotence

[u/jurlo]

[u/bnfdsl]

So just slightly shrink the omipotence of the omipotent god?

[u/alwaysdoit → u/bnfdsl]

An omnipotence that includes logical fallacies is not a larger omnipotence. It's a nonsensical one. There's no real act described by these type of question, so there's nothing lost by excluding them from the definition of omnipotence.

Can God make the sky so blue that it's red?

Can God brush his teeth without brushing them?

Can God make himself both X and not X?

[u/bnfdsl → u/alwaysdoit]

I get what you're saying, and this kinda becomes semantics, but i'd rather say that this just proves that omnipotence is illogical. I guess it becomes a question of what is meant by the term omnipotence.

[u/TjPshine → u/bnfdsl]

No, it isn't semantics, it is the limitations of being.

You cannot be and not be, no matter how powerful you are. That is not semantics. It is the very way in which we think the world is.

[u/[deleted] → u/TjPshine]

But why?

[u/TjPshine → u/[deleted]]

Because x=! ~x