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To: gore3000
Can God's law change over time?

No.

Which leads to the following rather amusing syllogism, which must then logically be true.

P1: If there is something that God cannot do, then God cannot be omnipotent and all-powerful.
P2: There is something God cannot do - God cannot change his own law.
C1: Therefore, God cannot be omnipotent and all-powerful. QED.

561 posted on 05/22/2002 5:19:50 AM PDT by general_re
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To: longshadow;PatrickHenry
"Fiendishly clever powers of deduction" ping ;)
562 posted on 05/22/2002 5:24:46 AM PDT by general_re
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To: general_re
Your argument is flawed. In essence you are asking, ‘can a square be perfectly round and still be a square.’
570 posted on 05/22/2002 6:00:49 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: general_re
P1: If there is something that God cannot do, then God cannot be omnipotent and all-powerful.
P2: There is something God cannot do - God cannot change his own law.
C1: Therefore, God cannot be omnipotent and all-powerful. QED.

The ability to err is a power?

There are many confusions in the premises. God is absolute being, truth, goodness and beauty. He is perfect –lacking nothing. Therefore He is a simple spiritual substance (having no parts).

Since He is perfect He cannot logically contradict Himself or do nonsensical things. Rather than being a deficiency or lack of perfection, this exemplifies His limitless power and perfection.

We who are limited, fallen creatures have within our power the ability to err, as your argument demonstrates.

588 posted on 05/22/2002 7:11:32 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: general_re
Can God's law change over time? -general_re-

No. -me-

Which leads to the following rather amusing syllogism, which must then logically be true.

Hate to tell you but your syllogism is garbage. You are quick to bash religion and could not wait for an answer could you?

That God's law cannot change over time has nothing to do with his being omnipotent or not. He could change it if He wanted to. Thing is he does not want to. You see, God, like humans (because we are made in his own image) has free will. He can exercise it as he chooses but not being like the atheist heros Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il, Castro, and Idi Amin he does not use his powers, his omnipotence to do evil. He has made a covenant with mankind and he is not going to break it.

698 posted on 05/22/2002 6:21:25 PM PDT by gore3000
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