Omniscient = Always knowing everything, past present future with absolute infalibility. i.e. can NEVER be wrong about even the minutest detail.
omipotent = Can do absolutely anything. NO LIMITS.
No limits, huh?
Wouldn't saying that because something is not
logically possible then god can't do it be placing a limit on what god is capable of doing? Wouldn't "NO LIMITS" include to the ability to do that which is logically impossible?
If omnipotence is limited to only that which is logically possible, then that is something very very close to, but not quite, omnipotence.
Given that he KNOWS (omniscience) what I will be doing, does he have the power (omnipotence)to make me do something else?
If YES then that means that he may well be omnipotent but he cannot be simultaneously omniscient since he has now been demonstrably wrong about what I would be doing.
If NO then he cannot be omnipotent since I have just found something that he cannot do.
With absolute omnipotence, he would be able to both know what you will be doing and change it, while maintaining omniscience. If he can't do that, then he isn't really omnipotent.
ere is really no wiggle room in this conundrum if you stick to the rules of pure logic.
While it seems to show a fault in omni-stuffs, it could just as easily be showing a fault of logic.
Either way you look at it, omnipotence overturns omniscinece every time. In a nutshell, Omnipotence gives God the power to be wrong. If he can never be wrong then he is, by definition, not omnipotent since he is limited.
I too, think that omnipotence trumps omniscience. Isn't omniscience a subset of omnipotence anyways? All powers include the power to know everything (and nothing).
It's like the old adage. Can God make a boulder so big that he can't lift it? I know that is a bit cliche but nevertheless it is a valid point.
God can make a boulder that is simultaneously too big to lift and lift-able.
I guess my point is that it is futile to use logic on omnipotence. You starting by already putting a limit on omnipotence, which is defeating the whole puropse of it.
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