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To: general_re
The intrinsically impossible is the self-contradictory, and its mutually exclusive elements could result only in nothingness.
695 posted on 05/22/2002 6:12:43 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
"I think you are not satisfactorily interacting with my arguments."

Wonderful. So we've got a special Catholic definition of omnipotence. I was sort of expecting Aquinasfan to post back with this objection - I am familiar with the Summa Theologica, you know. Sometimes being a lapsed Catholic has its advantages ;)

My objection stands. One does not get to redefine inconvenient terms merely to make them more convenient. The fact that the RC Church sanctions such casuistry does not change the nature of it. Clearly the questioner in these passages does not accept such a definition of "omnipotence" - as we are told that he is a non-Catholic, this is hardly a surprise. Nor do I accept it.

701 posted on 05/22/2002 6:25:52 PM PDT by general_re
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