Re: USAGE: "omnipotence" (was: Re: USAGE: "racism" )

>> Well, i've always answered those kind of arguments with a "yes, an
>> Omnipotent Deity *can* create a boulder that s/he can't lift.  They just
>> choose not to."  Possibility is not the same as Actuality.  Just because
>> someone *can* do something doesn't mean that they *do* do it.  I can kill
>> myself, but that doesn't make me dead as i'm writing this email.
An appealing (though strange and suspicious) explanation I heard in Logic
class this summer was that it is the business of Omnipotent Beings to do
The Impossible. God creates a boulder he can't lift (impossible), and then
lifts it (also impossible). :)

sam



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