Logic: "reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity."Astro Cat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 4:35 am It is logically impossible for God to have created people with omnipotence because there can only be one omnipotent being (lest you run into the immovable object/irresistible force paradox).
However, there isn’t anything illogical about making other omnibenevolent or omniscient beings.
Why did God not make humans omniscient and omnibenevolent to avoid the instantiation of evil and suffering? Why not make angels that way too (to avoid Satan existing as a deceiver)?
Given, say, a particular context?
The only reason logic came to exist at all is because the human species was around to invent it. And it was invented because language was invented by the human species and rules had to be thought up to differentiate what was rational -- epistemologically sound -- to say and what was not. That being important because what we think, feel, and say is often of fundamental importance in regard to what we do. And it is in regard to what we do that actual consequences unfold.
In other words, when we connected our words to the world that we lived in. And then interacted with others such that they connected the words to the same world differently. What then? Well, among other things, the birth of morality.
But you tell me:
Where does human logic come into play in regard to questions such as this:
Why does something exist instead of nothing?
Why does this something exist instead of something else?
Where does the human condition fit into a definitive understanding of this particular something itself?
What of solipsism, sim worlds, dream worlds, the Matrix?
What of the multiverse?
To wit: "reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity" here.
We can't even logically pin down whether or not this entire exchange itself is not but a necessary component of the only possible reality in the only possible world.
Let alone the part that I attribute to dasein in the is/ought world here: https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop ... 1&t=176529
As for omniscience and omnipotence and omnibenevolence and omnipresence and the like: pin them down logically.
God or No God.
And [of course] taking into account Rummy's Rule:
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
And, what, you thought that this was just in reference to the war in Iraq?