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omnipotence

Jun 18th, 2016
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  1. I find it rather annoying that omnipotence is included in the definition of Abrahamic God, alongside omniscience and omnibenevolence. For any omnipotent entity, we can consider whether they are able to make an object they can't move, which yields a contradiction. Thus, the existence of an omnipotent entity is absurd. The response from Abrahamics seems to have been to downplay all of the “omni-” properties, which is a bit of a shame. Omnibenevolence requires something close to omniscience, so let's just consider an omniscient entity for now. An omniscient entity can solve the halting problem, which we know is impossible for any effective procedure to do, so God is not a computer. By the Church-Turing thesis, we also get that God is not a person. If we are to believe the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle, we also have that God is not purely physical. This puts God in quite a convenient, and difficult-to-refute, place, having some limited way to affect physical reälity whilst being non-physical in nature. I'd still claim that omnibenevolence just doesn't hold, but omniscience is an interesting property. Omnipotence is just the worst: one of the more blatant scare tactics employed by those with something to keep away from others. The fact that it got included in scripture despite being absurd is evidence that we can't trust that scripture is the word of the perfect God.
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