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

Ed Heil wrote:

> But yeah, it's all about how carefully you define "omnipotent."  The
> paradox is only really a problem if you define "omnipotent" to mean
> "for any possible verb phrase X, the sentence 'God can X' is true."
St Thomas Aquinas said: "It is a sin to regard God's inability to
do the impossible as a limitation on His powers."  In more modern
language, "sin" would probably be rendered as "error" instead.

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