tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post1218351559778181215..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: Unliftable Objects and Crucified LordsBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-7952645904198832122010-06-09T18:55:28.135-04:002010-06-09T18:55:28.135-04:00Can a philosopher who sets up a false dichotomy wo...Can a philosopher who sets up a false dichotomy word game ever gaze upon the face of God? Probably not.<br /><br />Pebbles is right. God can satisfy both ends of the argument at will.<br /><br />First, He can create a rock that is too heavy for Him to lift. He does it by deciding it is so. Then He changes His mind and there are no rocks too heavy to lift. He satisfies both A and Not A. <br /><br />All such physical conditions are simply the decision of God at any one moment. See Bishop Berkeley. <br /><br />All created conditions are temporary and contingent, not absolute and timeless. Therefore, one can have both A and Not A, playing with time.<br /><br />The box of finite logic is such a sad place to hang out.Author Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251087160722264433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-8023066013757228362010-06-09T14:17:50.332-04:002010-06-09T14:17:50.332-04:00Ignoring the fact that this question seems to be p...Ignoring the fact that this question seems to be predicated on a vision of God as some sort of mass, force or subtly material spirit that interacts with the physical world according to the laws of physics rather than pure Being as Augustine says or pure consciousness if you want to call it that, the question could be rephrased like this: <br /><br />can God create something that either opposes his own will or is beyond his ability to control? In other words, can God be the effect of that which he creates? I imagine the answer would be yes, insofar as he chooses. But only insofar as he chooses. God is capable of overwhelming human free will, for example, if he so chooses. As you note, however, he chooses not to do so. <br /><br />I suppose it would even be theoretically possible for God to choose not to be omnipotent. But that does not mean he is inherently finite. Rather he is limited only to the extent that he chooses to be so. No contradiction.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02416179882756576300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-7791210991384406442010-06-09T12:53:16.940-04:002010-06-09T12:53:16.940-04:00My father once told me he couldn't worship a G...My father once told me he couldn't worship a God that he could fully understand. That always stuck with me. <br /><br />If you can fully understand your God, it's very possible you're just worshiping yourself. Or at least your own understanding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-57637525922311387262010-06-09T10:26:37.050-04:002010-06-09T10:26:37.050-04:00The idea that *I* might be the object too heavy to...The idea that *I* might be the object too heavy to lift is not satisfying, exactly, but not unsatisfying either. I'm really happy that I read this today.Saranoreply@blogger.com