I'm going to take a leap and suppose that the general consensus is that God is omnipotent and omniscient. I've not cared about things like God etc for so long I can;t remember the details, but I think most people would agree with those two.
So here's the question.
Is it impossible (i.e. a logical contradiction) for God to be simultaneously both omniscient and omnipotent?
How can it have the power to do anything it likes when the course of all history - past present & future - is already set out? If god knows that in the future it will do X at time Y, then it cannot be empowered to do anything other than X at time Y, otherwise it's previous omniscience would have failed it.
Being compelled to perform an action and unable to do otherwise doesn't sound very omnipotent to me.
So here's the question.
Is it impossible (i.e. a logical contradiction) for God to be simultaneously both omniscient and omnipotent?
How can it have the power to do anything it likes when the course of all history - past present & future - is already set out? If god knows that in the future it will do X at time Y, then it cannot be empowered to do anything other than X at time Y, otherwise it's previous omniscience would have failed it.
Being compelled to perform an action and unable to do otherwise doesn't sound very omnipotent to me.
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