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My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God For discussing any and all religious viewpoints. Intolerance will not be tolerated. Keeping your sense of humor is required. Posting messages about theological paradoxes is encouraged.

 
 
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  #1   Add crazyassindian to your ignore list  
Old 2006-11-02, 22:11
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Obviously, the title of this thread is a joke, so don't bitch at me for that.

Well, I've been reading some stuff that says that that kind of question (aforementioned in the title) cannot be asked. This is because the question is in physical terms while the concept of "God" is a metaphysical idea. This made sense to me, so my question is two-fold.

1) Please either disprove this arguement or put in simpler terms and

2) What other reasons can you think of that a omniscient being is impossible?

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Old 2006-11-02, 22:35
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1) we don't need to disprove it to you since you already had a reason it didn't work

2)omnipotent. and nothing, because the statements made in attempt to disprove omnipotence don't make sense at all anyway.
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Old 2006-11-03, 16:58
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To the OP:

What you're trying to do is use an illogical statement to disprove the possibility of omnipotence.
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Old 2006-11-03, 17:33
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1.) It doesn't make any sense to me. An omnipotent God must obviously be able to interact with the physical in some manner, or he'd be pretty ineffectual and not omnipotent at all.
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Old 2006-11-03, 17:42
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quote:Originally posted by crazyassindian:

Obviously, the title of this thread is a joke, so don't bitch at me for that.

Well, I've been reading some stuff that says that that kind of question (aforementioned in the title) cannot be asked. This is because the question is in physical terms while the concept of "God" is a metaphysical idea. This made sense to me, so my question is two-fold.

1) Please either disprove this arguement or put in simpler terms and

2) What other reasons can you think of that a omniscient being is impossible?

THe joke is funny,

your not

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Old 2006-11-03, 17:56
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"Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?"

[This message has been edited by AstronomyDomine (edited 11-03-2006).]
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Old 2006-11-04, 08:47
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quote:Originally posted by jacobjc73:

Yes, her name was magdeline
Well, based on stories I hear he did a real number on her.
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Old 2006-11-04, 09:04
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An arguement can be made that the paradox proves God cannot be omni-everything. From my exprience, when this is posed to believers, they just say that it takes faith. I have no problem with faith, but not to the point where it becomes stupid and illogical.
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Old 2006-11-04, 21:24
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God is of Spirit--or force, or Clear Light, whtever you want to call it. Whatever God is, is not physical, although God manifests in all things physical.

As Heinlein put it -- "I am God, thou art God, all that groks is God."

As the Bible put it "the kingdom of God is within you."

If he/she/it/them/whatever so CHOSE, God could manifest as a physical entity with whatever physical limitations he/she/it/them/whatever chose to have.

It is that simple.
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Old 2006-11-05, 01:36
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pick up a bible and read it.

numbnuts.

id go for, oh i dont know, genesis?
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Old 2006-11-10, 12:49
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Could Jesus microwav a burrito so hot even he himself could not eat it? or something like that.

it sounds stupid, but an omnipotent being is a paradox in itself. If god has infinite power, logic says that he can create ANYTHING in ANY shape or form, I.E an immovable boob

But how could god possibly be called omnipotent if he cant cant control this collosal boob?
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