spidergoat,
et al,
I apologize for my tardy response. I was sidetracked on something elsewhere.
Yes, we've all seen this "human logic" applied to the "God Power" concept.
(COMMENT)
First, there are a couple hidden assumption:
- That logic existed and limited the Supreme Being before the creation of the Universe.
- That the Logic Laws, created by man, apply to a Supreme Being. That the human assigned attributes of the Supreme Being must follow human logic.
- That the Supreme Being is independent of man's knowledge; that the Creator has no influence over the development of man to comprehend. That man fully understands the total extent of the Supreme Being's powers. That man's ability to comprehend the abilities of the Supreme Being is equal to or greater than that of the Supreme Being.
- That manmade mental paradox's limit the Supreme Being in its ability to execute God Powers.
There is a second line of thought, relative to the God Power definition. The construct of a paradox is such that it searches for a human flaw in the definition of manmade definitions of the observable reality and attempts to exploit them. The immoveable object or the circular-square are often exemplary of the quasi-logical tricks applied. And the solution to such manmade philosphical trickery is the exploitation in the opposite fashion. Examples:
- PARADOX 1: Could an omnipotent Supreme Being (SB) create a rock so massive that that SB could not move it?
SOLUTION 1: Yes. "Lifting" or "moving" implies the force of gravity to hold it in place. The SB merely eliminates the force of gravity and inflates the rock to become the universe. Note: This is a variation on the theme that the SB either eliminates all but the rock from the Universe, thereby there is nothing to lift it from (or off of); and the theme that the SB creates a separate Universe in which the only constituant is the immoveable rock. The more recent (1925) variant is where the SB moves everything away from the rock creating a differential in space. The Quantum (1990's) solution is, of course, for the SB to change the polarity of the rock so that it becomes repulsive to everything around it.
- PARADOX 2: Could an omnipotent Supreme Being (SB) create a circular-square (Euclidean round square)?
SOLUTION 2: Yes. The paradox presupposes the SB can not alter the perception of man. The SB merely creates the ninety-degree angles over the curvature of space and spins it at some great speed. It is observed by one on the plane to be a square, and observed by another, outside the plane, as a circle.
But these are all illusionary paradoxes, trickery, created by man to dispute man's limited image of what a Supreme Being might be; and what limitations the SB might have. For instance, even the Law of Logic recognize that nothing can be both "A" and "not A" simultaneously; or, square and not square. The syntax of the paradox does not follow the three self-evident logic axioms:
http://editthis.info/logic/The_Laws_of_Classical_Logic
- The law of identity
- The law of the excluded middle
- The law of non-contradiction
These do not really address the concept of a SB and man's mental understanding of such a enormously infinite concept. They are side show to the larger issue.
Most Respectfully,
R
PS: Remembering that I am Agnostic or maybe a Pantheist; and submit this just because I don't like false logic.
